Asparagales is a monophyletic order that contains many species, including important crop plants Allium [1] . They also carry ornamentals such as irises and hyacinths.
The Asparagales order encompasses about 11,884,425 occurrences. The order currently contains 29 families, 1,122 genera, 49,606 species[2] .
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Asparagales Distribution
The Alliaceae and Amaryllidaceae families are found mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, South America, and South Africa.
Family Example Species Agapanthaceae Agapanthus flowers Alliaceae Allum flowers Amaryllidaceae Herbaceous bulbous flowering plants Anemarrhenaceae Anemarrhena Bunge Anthericaceae Desert agaves and yuccas plants Aphyllanthaceae Aphyllanthes monspeliensis Asparagaceae garden asparagus Asphodelaceae Asphodelus flowers Asteliaceae Astelia, Collospermum, Milligania, Neoastelia flowers Behniaceae Desert agaves and yuccas plants Blandfordiaceae Christmas bell flowers Boryaceae Borya and Alania (drought-tolerant flowering plants) Convallariaceae lilioid monocots Doryanthaceae gymea lily and giant spear lily Eriospermaceae lilioid monocots Hemerocallidaceae Hemerocallis flowers Herreriaceae Desert agaves and yuccas plants Hostaceae Desert agaves and yuccas plants Hyacinthaceae Hyacinthus (hyacinths), Hyacinthoides (bluebells), Muscari (grape hyacinths), and Scilla and Puschkinia (squills or scillas). Hypoxidaceae Hypoxis hemerocallidea (Herbal plants) Iridaceae Iris flowers Ixioliriaceae Siberian lily/lavender mountain lily Lanariaceae Cape Edelweiss Laxmanniaceae Mat rushes Orchidaceae Orchid family flowers Tecophilaeaceae Hartweg’s doll’s-lily flowers Themidaceae cluster Lilies Xanthorrhoeaceae Grass tree flowers Xeronemataceae Poor Knights lily
Temperate and subtropical Africa, particularly southern Africa, is home to members of the Asphodelaceae family. Members of the Agavaceae are found in xeric to mesic environments, with many occurring in arid regions. They are found across the New World, from the central United States through Panama, Caribbean islands, and northern South America.
Asparagales Species
The Alliaceae is a family of flowering plants, mainly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, South America, and Southern Africa. They are essential food and flavoring products, including garlic (Allium sativum ), onion (Allium cepa ), leek (A. ampeloprasum ), and chive (A. schoenoprasum ). Asparagales order includes several notable species, including Agapanthus spp. (common cultivars), Asparagus officinalis (a vegetable), and several ornamental species, such as A. setaceus , “asparagus fern ” and Hemerocallidaceae family’s Hemerocallis fulva (day-lily).
Asparagales Characteristics
The following are the general features of this plant order:
Asparagales Flower’s Role in Reproduction
The diversity of insect pollinators (the primary animal pollinator of Asparagales) is broad, although the bee is the most common.
Bright colors, contrasting markings (nectar guides), and often a pleasant odor are among the adaptations that flowers have acquired for this form of pollination. In certain Orchidaceae, such as Ophrys, the color and form of the labellum mimic a female bee of a specific species; the male bee pollinates the flower during pseudocopulation.
Asparagales Flower Structure
Asparagales blooms are typically noticeable and colorful.
However, even when not big and vividly colored, the perianth’s inner and outer whorls are generally petal-like, missing the characteristic difference between a green calyx What is calyx? A collective term for all the sepals of a flower; the lowermost whorl of floral orgrans (Plural form is calyces).corolla What is corolla? A collective term referring to the petals of a flower. The only difference between these two whorls is their location. The perianth segments are sometimes called tepals rather than sepals and petals. Most Asparagaceae have small, inconspicuous, white-to-greenish, radially symmetric (actinomorphic) flowers. Still, Orchidaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and Iridaceae have big, vividly colored blooms. In addition, some Amaryllidaceae have a corona, which is a petaloid extension of some or all of the tepals and is most visible as the trumpet section of narcissus blooms
Asparagales Economic Uses
Many garden plants, bulbs, and cut flowers are found in Asparagales, the asparagus or orchid order of flowering plants.
Spring-flowering Crocus and hyacinth (Hyacinthus) and thousands of various varieties of the summer-flowering Daylily gardens Aloe is another tropical African genus with long, succulent leaves popular as a houseplant and used medicinally. Other Asparagales plants with edible portions include the onion (Allium cepa ), garlic (Allium sativum ), and its cousins the leek (Allium porrum ) and shallot (Allium sativum ) (A. cepa , variety aggregatum ). In addition, asparagus (Asparagus officinalis ), a highly appreciated vegetable, and saffron, a spice made from the stigmas of the Crocus sativus plant, are also important species of this order. Finally, vanilla flavoring, derived from the fruit of the Vanilla orchid, is also a member of Asparagalesthat is worth noting.
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[1] – “Phylogeny, Genome Size, and Chromosome Evolution of Asparagales” – A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany. Accessed November 25, 2021. Link .[2] – “Asparagales” . Accessed November 25, 2021. Link .[3] – “Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Eudicots | Request PDF” . Accessed November 25, 2021. Link .[4] – “PHYLOGENY OF THE ASPARAGALES BASED ON THREE PLASTID AND TWO MITOCHONDRIAL GENES” by OLE SEBERG, GITTE PETERSEN, JERROLD I. DAVIS, J. CHRIS PIRES, DENNIS W. STEVENSON, MARK W. CHASE, MICHAEL F. FAY, DION S. DEVEY, TINA J ØRGENSEN, KENNETH J. SYTSMA , AND YOHAN PILLON. Accessed November 25, 2021. Link .
