Trilliaceae
Family of flowering plants
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::summary Family of flowering plants ::
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Trilliaceae was a family of flowering plants first named in 1846; however, most taxonomists now consider the genera formerly assigned to it to belong to the family Liliaceae. The APG IV system, of 2016 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does not recognize such a family either and assigns the plants involved to family Melanthiaceae, tribe Parideae.
Nevertheless, some taxonomists still recognize a separate family Trilliaceae. The most important genus in North America is Trillium, and the taxonomy of that genus has always been controversial.
A recent treatment (Farmer and Schilling 2002) stated that the family Trilliaceae, which exhibits an arcto-tertiary distribution, comprises six genera. Three of these exhibit a wide distribution:
- Paris from Iceland to Japan,
- Daiswa from eastern Asia, and
- Trillium from North America and eastern Asia Three are monotypic, endemic genera:
- Trillidium govanianum, with a tepaloid inflorescence, from the Himalayan Mountains;
- Kinugasa japonica, with petaloid sepals, from Japan; and
- Pseudotrillium rivale, newly segregated, with spotted petals, from the Siskiyou Mountains of California and Oregon.
Within Melanthiaceae, these are consolidated into three genera; ;Parideae
- Paris L. (including Daiswa and Kinugasa)
- Pseudotrillium S.B.Farmer
- Trillium L. (including Trillidium)
File:Paris quadrifolia 050505.jpg|Paris quadrifolia in flower File:Paris quadrifolia (von Oben).jpg|Paris quadrifolia in fruit File:Paris quadrifolia Sturm45.jpg|Paris quadrifolia from Sturm (1796) File:Trilliumgrand.jpg|Trillium grandiflorum File:Trillium luteum1.jpg|Trillium luteum File:Trillium luteum2.jpg|Trillium luteum File:Trillium ovatum 1290.JPG|Trillium ovatum File:Trillium tschonoskii s2.jpg|Trillium tschonoskii
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