Laxmannia
Encyclopedia
Laxmannia is a genus
of tufted perennial herbs in the family
Asparagaceae
, subfamily Lomandroideae
, that are endemic to Australia
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Species include:.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of tufted perennial herbs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.In earlier classification systems, the species involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae...
, subfamily Lomandroideae
Lomandroideae
Lomandroideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales, according to the APG III system of 2009. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Lomandra. The group has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae...
, that are endemic to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Species include:.
- Laxmannia arida Keighery
- Laxmannia brachyphylla F.Muell. – Stilted Paper-Lily
- Laxmannia compacta Conran & P.I.Forst.
- Laxmannia gracilis R.Br. – Slender Wire-lily
- Laxmannia grandiflora Lindl.
- Laxmannia jamesii Keighery – Paperlily
- Laxmannia minor R.Br.
- Laxmannia omnifertilis Keighery
- Laxmannia orientalis Keighery – Dwarf Wire-lily
- Laxmannia paleacea F.Muell.
- Laxmannia pauciflora Endl.
- Laxmannia ramosa Lindl. – Branching Lily
- Laxmannia sessiliflora Decne.
- Laxmannia squarrosa Lindl. – Nodding Lily