| ? Arthropodium | | Scientific classification | | | | Species | | See text. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ...
Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ...
Families Alstroemeriaceae Campynemataceae Colchicaceae Corsiaceae Liliaceae Luzuriagaceae Melanthiaceae Philesiaceae Ripogonaceae Smilacaceae Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. ...
Genera Calochortus Cardiocrinum Clintonia Erythronium Fritillaria Gagea Korolkowia Lilium Lloydia Nomocharis Notholirion Scoliopus Streptopus Tricyrtis Tulipa The Liliaceae, or the Lily Family, is an important family of monocotyledons that includes a great number of ornamental flowers as well as several important agricultural crops; the onion has traditionally been classified here...
| Arthropodium is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants native to the Southern Hemisphere. It is sometimes placed in the family Asphodelaceae. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ...
A herb (pronounced hurb in Commonwealth English and urb in American English) is a plant grown for culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual value. ...
A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ...
The Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planets surface (or celestial sphere) that is south of the equator (the word hemisphere literally means half ball). On Earth it contains four continents (part of Africa, Australia, most of South America, and Antarctica) and four oceans (South Atlantic, Indian, Pacific...
Genera Aloe Asphodeline Asphodelus Bulbine Bulbinella Eremurus Gasteria Haworthia Jodrellia Kniphofia Lomatophyllum Poellnitzia Trachyandra Asphodelaceae Juss. ...
The rhizomes of some species can be eaten as root vegetables, including A. cirratum, A. milleflorum, A. minus, and A. strictum. Ginger rhizome In botany, a rhizome is a usually-underground, horizontal stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ...
Root vegetables are underground plant parts (including tubers, tuberous roots, taproots, rhizomes, corms, bulbs, and enlarged hypocotyls) used as vegetables. ...
A. cirratum is native to New Zealand, where it may once have been farmed. It is used for medicine as well as food, and has symbolic importance in traditional Māori culture. MÄori culture is a distinctive part of New Zealand culture. ...
Selected species:
- Arthropodium cirratum (rengarenga, renga lily, New Zealand rock lily, or maikaika)
- Arthropodium milleflorum (pale vanilla lily)
- Arthropodium minus (small vanilla lily)
- Arthropodium strictum (chocolate lily)
External links
- Significance of A. cirratum in Maori culture
- Plants for a Future database on A. milleflorum
- Photograph of underground parts of A. milleflorum
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