Family Liliaceae Jussieu 1789

Angiospermae - Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae

Full reference: A. L. d. Jussieu. 1789. Genera plantarum :secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in Horto regio parisiensi exaratam.

Parent taxon: Monocots according to E. I. Vera et al. 2022

See also Ettinghausen 1880, Knowlton 1919, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941, The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016 and Vallati et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Acorales, Aglaoreidia, Araceae, Arecaceae, Arecales, Asparagales, Commelinales, Commelinids, Dioscoreales, Liliales, Pandanales, Petrosaviales, Poales, Zingiberales

Subtaxa: Agave Albucastrum Aletris Amana Brachyruscus Cretovarium Crinanthus Gloriosa Gloriosites Liliacidites Majanthemophyllum Smilacophyllum

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (22 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (28), United States (1: Washington)

• Pliocene of India (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of South Atlantic (2)

• Miocene of Argentina (1), India (1), New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), Australia (5)

• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (1)

• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Argentina (1), Australia (1), Cuba (2), India (1), Myanmar (19), the United Kingdom (1), United States (56: Louisiana, Missouri, Virginia, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of Antarctica (1), Argentina (24), Australia (5), Canada (3: Manitoba), India (2), United States (38: Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (2)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5), Argentina (23), Australia (18), the Bahamas (6), Brazil (4), Canada (8: Alberta), China (1), Egypt (2), Israel (3), Madagascar (1), Morocco (1), Nigeria (1), Peru (3), South Sudan (2), Spain (1), United States (22: Alaska, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota)

Total: 329 collections including 428 occurrences

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