daylilies and allies
Hemerocallidoideae
Hemerocallidoideae is the botanical name of a subfamily of flowering plants, part of the family Asphodelaceae sensu lato in the monocot order Asparagales according to the APG system of 2016. Earlier classification systems treated the group as a separate family, the Hemerocallidaceae. The name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Hemerocallis. The largest genera in the group are Dianella (with 20 species), Hemerocallis (15), and Caesia (11).
19 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
daylilies
genusHemerocallis
flax-lilies
genusDianella
New Zealand flaxes
genusPhormium
Tricoryne
genusTricoryne
Chamaescilla
genusChamaescilla
Grasslilies
genusCaesia
Geitonoplesium
genusGeitonoplesium
Stypandra
genusStypandra
Pasithea
genusPasithea
Simethis
genusSimethis
Thelionema
genusThelionema
Johnsonia
genusJohnsonia
Agrostocrinum
genusAgrostocrinum
Herpolirion
genusHerpolirion
Corynotheca
genusCorynotheca
Arnocrinum
genusArnocrinum
Hensmania
genusHensmania
Hodgsoniola
genusHodgsoniola
Stawellia
genusStawellia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 476088.