Asparagaceae {family} - Tracheophyta; Liliopsida; Asparagales;

Sub-taxa

Subfamilies (5)
  1. Agavoideae [2]
  2. Asparagoideae [371]
  3. Brodiaeoideae [2]
  4. Convallarioideae [55]
  5. Nolinoideae [256]
Genera (106)
  1. Acanthocarpus [4]
  2. Agave [159]
  3. Albuca [57]
  4. Alrawia [1]
  5. Androstephium [5]
  6. Anemarrhena [13]
  7. Anthericum [34]
  8. Aphyllanthes [7]
  9. Arthropodium [3]
  10. Aspidistra [23]
  11. Avonsera [3]
  12. Battandiera [9]
  13. Beaucarnea [23]
  14. Bellevalia [32]
  15. Beschorneria [7]
  16. Bessera [12]
  17. Bowiea [8]
  18. Calibanus [6]
  19. Camassia [23]
  20. Campylandra [21]
  21. Cathissa [6]
  22. Chamaescilla [3]
  23. Chamaexeros [2]
  24. Chlorogalum [15]
  25. Chlorophytum [161]
  26. Coilonox [10]
  27. Comospermum [6]
  28. Cordyline [45]
  29. Corynotheca [5]
  30. Danae [4]
  31. Dandya [8]
  32. Dasylirion [11]
  33. Diamena [1]
  34. Dichelostemma [23]
  35. Dichopogon [1]
  36. Dipcadi [63]
  37. Disporopsis [19]
  38. Diuranthera [1]
  39. Dracaena [158]
  40. Drimia [50]
  41. Drimiopsis [15]
  42. Drymophila [16]
  43. Echeandia [13]
  44. Eliokarmos [1]
  45. Eriospermum [19]
  46. Eucharis [13]
  47. Eucomis [5]
  48. Eustrephus [7]
  49. Furcraea [17]
  50. Hagenbachia [4]
  51. Hastingsia [6]
  52. Hensmania [2]
  53. Herpolirion [1]
  54. Herreria [3]
  55. Herreriopsis [2]
  56. Hesperoyucca [5]
  57. Hessea [10]
  58. Heteropolygonatum [9]
  59. Hosta [41]
  60. Hyacinthoides [28]
  61. Hyacinthus [3]
  62. Jaimehintonia [2]
  63. Lachenalia [243]
  64. Lapiedra [7]
  65. Laxmannia [5]
  66. Ledebouria [25]
  67. Leucocrinum [4]
  68. Liriope [45]
  69. Lomandra [22]
  70. Maianthemum [371]
  71. Manfreda [15]
  72. Massonia [9]
  73. Milla [19]
  74. Murchisonia [1]
  75. Muscari [72]
  76. Neopatersonia [6]
  77. Ophiopogon [167]
  78. Ornithogalum [215]
  79. Oziroe [17]
  80. Paradisea [5]
  81. Peliosanthes [36]
  82. Pleomele [5]
  83. Polianthes [7]
  84. Prospero [41]
  85. Pseudogaltonia [2]
  86. Pseudoprospero [1]
  87. Reineckea [9]
  88. Rohdea [10]
  89. Ruscus [37]
  90. Sansevieria [36]
  91. Scilla [57]
  92. Semele [3]
  93. Sowerbaea [5]
  94. Speirantha [6]
  95. Spetaea [2]
  96. Theropogon [3]
  97. Thysanotus [5]
  98. Tricalistra [2]
  99. Trichopetalum [4]
  100. Tricyrtis [11]
  101. Triteleia [15]
  102. Tupistra [20]
  103. Veltheimia [5]
  104. Whiteheadia [1]
  105. Xerolirion [1]
  106. Yucca [75]

Taxon Description (Wikipedia)

BOLD Stats

Specimen Records: 3,610 Public Records: 2,849
Specimens with Sequences: 4,560 Public Species: 830
Specimens with Barcodes: 3,458 Public BINs: 0
Species: 909          
Species With Barcodes: 742          
           

Contributors (Specimens & Sequencing)

Specimen Depositories: Sequencing Labs:
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Imagery

images representing subtaxa of Asparagaceae
(Agave - LFM102) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Share-Alike (2022) Unspecified Universidad Autonoma Agraria Antonio Narro (Albuca - KBGPP48) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2018) Unspecified Compton Herbarium (Anthericum - Peru18272) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons – Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike Unspecified Herbarium of South China Botanical Garden
(Aphyllanthes - UM-AASS-0186) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2022) Guillaume Papuga Universite Montpellier (Asparagoideae - MP2954) @11 [ ] Copyright (2014) PHCDBS Paul Hebert Centre For DNA Barcoding And Biodiversity Studies (Beaucarnea - AP2.1) @11 [ ] Copyright (2014) PHCDBS Paul Hebert Centre For DNA Barcoding And Biodiversity Studies
(Beschorneria - GE02176) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2011) Abisai J. Garcia Mendoza Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biologia (Camassia - CCDB-23967-A05) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2015) Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Chlorogalum - CCDB-24952-B08) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SDNHM San Diego Natural History Museum
(Chlorophytum - B135) @11 [ ] Copyright (2014) PHCDBS Paul Hebert Centre For DNA Barcoding And Biodiversity Studies (Convallarioideae - MT00179986) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial (2012) MT Herbier Marie-Victorin (Cordyline - OMH-D30) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2011) James Tosh Natural History Museum, London
(Dichelostemma - CCDB-24956-E12) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SDNHM San Diego Natural History Museum (Dipcadi - KBGPP267) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2018) Unspecified Compton Herbarium (Dracaena - XM_0918_J) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) Cam Webb, Endro Setiawan & Hery Yanto Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
(Drimia - MP90) @11 [ ] Copyright (2014) PHCDBS Paul Hebert Centre fo DNA Barcoding And Biodiversity Studise (Drimiopsis - OM3756) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2011) Olivier Maurin University of Johannesburg (Eriospermum - KBGPP243) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2018) Unspecified Compton Herbarium
(Furcraea - GE02180) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2011) Abisai J. Garcia Mendoza Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biologia (Hesperoyucca - CCDB-24952-G09) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SDNHM San Diego Natural History Museum (Hosta - Ringve26) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2012) NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology
(Hyacinthoides - NBGW6024) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Lachenalia - UFS029) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Ledebouria - FFVCC110) @11 [ ] nrr Unspecified Unspecified
(Liriope - CSU028) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Maianthemum - ERM486) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2012) Unspecified UBC Herbarium (Manfreda - GE02187) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2011) Abisai J. Garcia Mendoza Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biologia
(Muscari - 116_017) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved (2019) Kostrzyca Forest Gene Bank Kostrzyca Forest Gene Bank (Nolinoideae - CCDB-23967-D02) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2015) Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Ophiopogon - MP5541) @11 [ ] Copyright (2015) G D Khedkar Paul Hebert Centre For DNA Barcoding And Biodiversity Studies
(Ornithogalum - BGE_00079_B10) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons – Attribution by TAU herbarium (2025) TAU herbarium Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Oziroe - Peru18015) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons – Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike Unspecified Herbarium of South China Botanical Garden (Prospero - NMW3831) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2012) National Museum Wales National Museum Wales
(Ruscus - NMW866) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Sansevieria - TK1_E1_NMK) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2017) Unspecified Mpala Research Centre (Scilla - CCDB-23112-B11) @11 [ ] Copyright (2015) Deb Metsger Royal Ontario Museum
(Triteleia - ERM1755) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2013) Unspecified UBC Herbarium (Veltheimia - OM3216) @11 [ ] No Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Yucca - AC_0080) @11 [ ] No Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified
(Yucca)
  Sample ID:
AC_0080
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Collection Sites




Collected from 32 countries.
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South Africa322United Kingdom57Indonesia20
India168Netherlands34Poland18
Canada113Australia28France15
United States88Egypt27Pakistan11
Mexico85Norway27Japan7
Kenya73Austria25Peru5
China67Costa Rica22

Taxon Occurrence (GBIF)