Tecophilaeaceae

Tecophilaeaceae
Conanthera bifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Tecophilaeaceae Leyb.
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Cyanastraceae

Tecophilaeaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.^[1]

The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 (unchanged from the 1998 and 2003 versions) does recognize this family. The family then includes over half a dozen genera, with only a few dozen species, occurring in Africa, in western South America and western North America. This circumscription includes the genus Cyanastrum, which sometimes has been treated as a separate family Cyanastraceae.

Genera

• Conanthera
• Cyanastrum
• Cyanella
• Kabuyea
• Lanaria
• Odontostomum
• Tecophilaea
• Walleria
• Zephyra

Notes and references

1. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (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): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x 

External links

• Tecophilaeaceae, Cyanastraceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: Version: 27 April 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
• NCBI Taxonomy Browser
• links at CSDL, Texas and more links at CSDL, Texas
• Tecophilaeaceae of Chile, por Chileflora