Jussieu, A.L. de (4 August 1789), Genera Plantarum: 40 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Asparagus L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1210 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Liliaceae Juss. nom. cons.

Dahlgren, R.M.T., Clifford, H.T. & Yeo, P.F. (1985), The Families of the Monocotyledons: 140-142, Fig. 57 [secondary reference]

Macfarlane, T.D. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Asparagaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 736 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Asparagaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 990 [secondary reference]

Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Asparagaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 44-45 [secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: 507-508, 511 [secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K. & Rudall, P.J. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Asparagaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 3: 125-129, Fig. 40 [secondary reference]

Chase, M.W., Soltis, D.E., Soltis, P.S., Rudall, P.J., Fay, M.F., Hahn, W.H., Sullivan, S., Joseph, J., Molvray, M., Kores, P.J., Givnish, T.J., Sytsma, J.J. & Pires, J.C. in Wilson, K.L. & Morrison, D.A. (ed.) (2000), Higher-level systematics of the monocotyledons: An assessment of current knowledge and a new classification. Monocots: Systematics and Evolution: 15 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 252 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 416 [secondary reference]

• Comment: New family circumscription described in the text.

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 78 [secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae"). Botanical Review 73(2): 82 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Convallariaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ruscaceae M.Roem. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Ophiopogonaceae Meisn. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tupistraceae Schnizl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Aspidistraceae Hassk. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Polygonataceae Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Platymetraceae Salisb. nom. illeg. taxonomic synonym: Peliosanthaceae Salisb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Hemiphylacaceae Doweld legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Asparagi Juss. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Hyacinthaceae Batsch ex Borkh. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Convallariaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anthericaceae J.Agardh legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dracaeneae Salisb. orth. var. taxonomic synonym: Dracaenaceae Salisb. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Laxmanniaceae Bubani legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lomandraceae Lotsy legitimate pro parte taxonomic synonym: Agavaceae Dumort. nom. cons.

• APC Comment: The following families are recognised as distinct in Qld: Agavaceae (represented by Agave, Furcraea and Yucca), Laxmanniaceae (represented by Arthropodium, Cordyline, Eustrephus, Laxmannia, Lomandra, Romnalda, Sowerbaea and Thysanotus), Anthericaceae (represented by Chlorophytum), Dracaenaceae (represented by Dracaena, Pleomele and Sansevieria) and Hyacinthaceae (represented by Ledebouria).
• APC Dist.: WA (native and naturalised), NT (native and naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (native and naturalised), ACT (native and naturalised), Vic (native and naturalised), Tas (native and naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 20, 51, 73, 213, 287, 472, 932 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hyacinthaceae Batsch ex Borkh. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Agavaceae Dumort. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Convallariaceae Horan. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Anthericaceae J.Agardh legitimate taxonomic synonym: Dracaenaceae Salisb. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Laxmanniaceae Bubani legitimate taxonomic synonym: Lomandraceae Lotsy legitimate

Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 133-134 [secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 109 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Hyacinthaceae Batsch ex Borkh. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Agavaceae Dumort. nom. cons. taxonomic synonym: Laxmanniaceae Bubani legitimate

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2B [secondary reference]

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 29 [secondary reference]

common name: Fringed Lily [n/a]

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