The Tulipeae (

syn. The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...

Tulipoideae) Duby is a

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...

monocotyledon Monocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, ( Lilianae ''sensu'' Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. They constitute one of ...

perennial A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition ...

mainly

bulbous In botany, a bulb is structurally a short stem with fleshy leaves or leaf basesBell, A.D. 1997. ''Plant form: an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. that function as food storage organs duri ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s in the

Liliaceae The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a f ...

(lily)

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

. As originally conceived by Duby (1828), "Tulipaceae" was a tribe within Liliaceae, consisting of the genera ''

Tulipa Tulips (''Tulipa'') are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm ...

'', ''Fritillaria'' and

Lilium ''Lilium'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers. They are the true lilies. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. M ...

Description

Herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition ...

non-climbing

plants. Bulbs consisting of a single scale.

Anthers The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filam ...

pseudo-basifixed. fruit consists of a

loculicidal Dehiscence is the splitting of a mature plant structure along a built-in line of weakness to release its contents. This is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia. Sometimes this involves the complete detachment of a part; structures that ...

capsule, seeds not winged. Tetrasporic

embryo-sac A gametophyte () is one of the two alternating multicellular phases in the life cycles of plants and algae. It is a haploid multicellular organism that develops from a haploid spore that has one set of chromosomes. The gametophyte is the sex ...

formation with 7–8 nuclei. Nucella having a short base. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM) non-''Clintonia'' type.

Chromosomes A chromosome is a long DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism. In most chromosomes the very long thin DNA fibers are coated with packaging proteins; in eukaryotic cells the most important of these proteins are ...

large - 2–11 μm (1–6 μm in ''Gagea'').

Genome size Genome size is the total amount of DNA contained within one copy of a single complete genome. It is typically measured in terms of mass in picograms (trillionths (10−12) of a gram, abbreviated pg) or less frequently in daltons, or as the to ...

(3)4–25(70) pg, x = (9)12. Polyploidy common.

Taxonomy

Tulipeae remained a core group of the Liliaceae, containing the type genus, Lilium for most of its taxonomic history. For instance, Bentham and Hooker (1883), placed ''

'' together with ''

'' and five other genera in Liliaceae tribe Tulipeae. In the modern era, Takhtadzhi︠an described the tribe as having four genera: * ''

'' * ''

Amana Amana may refer to: Places * Amaná, a village in La Rioja Province, Argentina * Amana River, in northeastern Venezuela * Amanã River, in northwestern Brazil * Mount Amana, mountain described in the Bible, or an adjacent river * Amana Colonies, ...

'' (considered by some to be included in

) * ''Holongia'' * '' Erythronium'' Later only ''Tulipa'' and ''Erythronium'' were included, and ''

Gagea ''Gagea'' is a large genus of spring flowers in the lily family. It is found primarily in Eurasia with a few species extending into North Africa and one species ('' Gagea serotina'') in North America. The genus is named after the English nat ...

'' was added. Tulipeae has been variously constructed, chiefly as either a tribe of the subfamily

Lilioideae The Lilioideae are a subfamily of monocotyledonous perennial, herbaceous mainly bulbous flowering plants in the lily family, Liliaceae. They are found predominantly in the temperate and colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere, particularly E ...

, or a subfamily of Liliaceae itself (Tulipoideae). However it has been proposed that ''Gagea'' should be in its own tribe, the Lloydieae. The evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships of Tulipeae within Liliaceae are shown in the following

Cladogram A cladogram (from Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an evolutionary tree because it does not show how ancestors are related to ...

. Here, Tulipeae is shown as a clade within the broader construction of Lileae (''sensu lato''), or as a separate

biogeographical Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, ...

tribe if the narrow sense of Lileae (''sensu stricto'') is adopted, with Lileae and Tulipeae as

sister groups In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree. Definition The expression is most easily illustrated by a cladogram: Taxon A and t ...

. The continuing use of Tulipeae as a separate tribe is supported by several authors.

Genera

Genera (species) * ''Amana'' Honda (5) * ''Erythronium'' L. (15) * ''Gagea'' Salisb. (=''Lloydia'' Salisb.) ( ca. 300) * ''Tulipa'' L. (ca. 150) ''Gagea'' is sister to the other three genera.

Synonyms

* Gageeae Rouy, Fl. France 12: 380. 1910. * Lloydieae Buxb., Bot. Arch. 38: 389. 1937. * Tulipoideae Kostel, Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 168. 1831.

Notes

References

Bibliography

* * * * * * * * * * * Liliaceae Monocot tribes Historically recognized angiosperm taxa {{Liliales-stub