''Fusifilum'' is a

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ous flowering plants in the

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Asparagaceae Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, '' Asparagus officinalis''. This family includes both ...

, subfamily

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(also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards),
Asparagales: Scilloideae
, ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2013-04-08 It is distributed in southern Africa (

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). Some sources consider that all the species should be placed in the genus ''

Drimia ''Drimia'' is a genus of African, south European and south Asian flowering plants. In the APG IV classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae). When broadly circumscrib ...

''.

Systematics

The genus ''Fusifilum'' was created by

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; 22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ult ...

in 1837, the type species being ''F. physodes''. In 2001, some species were moved from other genera (such as ''Drimia'') into ''Fusifilum''. Other species were newly created. A molecular phylogenetic analysis by Manning et al. in 2004 concluded that the genus was not

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and that the species should all be placed in the genus ''

''. ''Fusifilum'' is placed in the tribe Urgineeae (or the subfamily Urgineoideae by those who use the family Hyacinthaceae).

Species

, the

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recognized the following

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:Search for "Fusifilum", *'' Fusifilum bruce-bayeri'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum capitatum'' (Hook.f.) Speta *'' Fusifilum crenulatum'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum depressum'' (Baker) U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum emdeorum'' J.S.Tang & Weiglin *'' Fusifilum gifbergense'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum glaucum'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum hei'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum magicum'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum minus'' (A.V.Duthie) Speta *'' Fusifilum oliverorum'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum papillosum'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum physodes'' (Jacq.) Raf. ex Speta *'' Fusifilum spirale'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies *'' Fusifilum stoloniferum'' U.Müll.-Doblies, J.S.Tang & D.Müll.-Doblies

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14750840 Asparagaceae genera Scilloideae Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque