Trilliaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN and if the plant is a Cultigen, the In Biological classification, family ( Latin The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group The family has been recognised as distinct since 1846 when it was recognized; this table [1] for a summarizes the placement of these taxa. The family has been recognized by taxonomists such as Takhtajan, Dahlgren, Thorne, and Watson & Dallwitz; other taxonomists have considered these plants to belong to the family Liliaceae. The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of Monocotyledons in the order Liliales. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does not recognize such a family either and assigns the plants involved to family Melanthiaceae. Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering perennial herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. One problem with this recognition is the lack of morphological synapomorphies for the family Melanthiaceae; this chart [2] provides a summary of the characters in each of the major groups. In Evolutionary biology, a synapomorphy is a derived Character state shared by two or more terminal groups ( taxa included in a Cladistic analysis Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering perennial herbs in the Northern Hemisphere.
Nevertheless, some taxonomists still recognize a separate family Trilliaceae. The most important genus in North America is Trillium, and the taxonomy of that genus has always been controversial. Trillium is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous Flowering plants native to temperate regions of North America and Asia To paraphrase what Steven Elliott wrote of the genus Trillium in 1817,
- "this family is an interesting one. A whorl of leaves at the summit of a stem, supporting a single flower, it contains and conceals many species. "
A recent treatment (Farmer and Schilling 2002) stated that the family Trilliaceae, which exhibits an arcto-tertiary distribution, comprises six genera. Three of these exhibit a wide distribution:
- Paris from Iceland to Japan,
- Daiswa from eastern Asia, and
- Trillium from North America and eastern Asia
Three are monotypic, endemic genera:
- Trillidium govanianum, with a tepaloid inflorescence, from the Himalayan Mountains;
- Kinugasa japonica, with petaloid sepals, from Japan; and
- Pseudotrillium rivale, newly segregated, with spotted petals, from the Siskiyou Mountains of California and Oregon. Paris is the Botanical name of a Genus of Flowering plants. It exists of less than two dozen Herbaceous plants the best known
 Paris quadrifolia in flower | .jpg/120px-Paris-quadrifolia(vonOben).jpg) Paris quadrifolia in fruit |  Paris quadrifolia from Sturm (1796) |  Trillium grandiflorum |
 Trillium luteum |  Trillium luteum |  Trillium ovatum |  Trillium tschonoskii |
External links
- Susan Farmer's web pages on Trilliaceae and the genus Trillium
- Farmer & Schilling 2002 -- article in Systematic Botany on Trilliaceae
- Trilliaceae in L. Paris quadrifolia (Herb Paris True-lover's Knot is a species of the genus Paris in the family Melanthiaceae although authorities formerly regarded Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 3rd May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
- links at CSDL, Texas
- history and placement of taxa in Trilliaceae
- morphological characters of genera within Melanthiaceae sensu APG II
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