THE ORDER LILIALES

Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web system, within the lilioid monocots. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae. 

ALSTROEMERIACEAE.                                   

PERUVIAN LILIES

Alstroemeriaceae is distributed in tropical and temperate America, from Mexico to the southern tip of South America.

Peruvian lily, Lilies of the Incas (Alstroemeria aurea)
Taken April 2017:  The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Because it has a long vase life, Peruvian lily (Alstroemeria) is often used in bouquets. It has trumpet shaped flowers, solitary or borne in umbels. Plants of this genus grow from a cluster of tuberous roots.  Alstroemeria was named for Baron Clas Alströmer (1736 – 1794), a Swedish naturalist who was a student of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. He established a botanical garden and natural museum near Gothenburg, Sweden which was managed by the botanist Anders Dahl (the dahlia's namesake). 

CAMPYNEMATACEAE.                          

Campynemataceae (Campynemaceae) is a family of flowering plants. The family consists of two genera and four species of perennial herbaceous plants endemic to New Caledonia and Tasmania.

COLCHICACEAE.                                Colchicaceae is a family  of flowering  plants that includes 15 genera with a total of about 285 known species.

CORSIACEAE.                                       

Corsiaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system (2003) treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. This is a slight change from the APG system, of 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but did assign it also to the monocots.

LILIACEAE.                                           

The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales.They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes.  The largest genera are Gagea (200), Fritillaria (130), Lilium (110), and Tulipa (75 species), all within the tribe Lilieae.

A Lily developed in the Netherlands, Lilium Asiaticum Tiny Epic. Bred originally for containers, these are versatile garden plants as well. The dwarf habit makes them useful near the front of any sunny border where they put on a great midsummer show. Also equally at home in a rock garden. The best effect comes from massing in good-sized clumps of one variety.

This selection has large upfacing, mango yellow flowers with burgundy coloured eyes. Colorful addition for design include burgundy ruffled basil, purple oxalis, and purple Tradescantia (spiderwort).

Fire Lily, Lilium
Osaka Garden, Chicago

Melanthiaceae

Petermanniaceae

Philesiaceae

Ripogonaceae

Smilacaceae

Smilacaceae, the greenbriers, is a family of flowering plants. While they were often assigned to a more broadly defined family Liliaceae, most recent botanists have accepted the two as distinct families, diverging around 55 million years ago during the Early Paleogene. One characteristic that distinguishes Smilacaceae from most of the other members of the Liliaceae-like Liliales is that it has true vessels in its conducting tissue. Another is that the veins of the leaves, between major veins, are reticulate (net-shaped), rather than parallel as in most monocots.

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