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Scilla peruviana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Hyacinthaceae
Genus: Scilla
Species: S. peruviana
Binomial name
Scilla peruviana

Cuban lily (Scilla peruviana) is an ornamental plant also known, confusingly, as Hyacinth of Peru or Peruvian Scilla. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... 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 according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Agapanthus Agavaceae Alliaceae Amaryllidaceae Aphyllanthaceae Asparagaceae Asphodelaceae Asteliaceae Blandfordiaceae Boryaceae Doryanthaceae Hemerocallidaceae Hyacinthaceae Hypoxidaceae Iridaceae Ixioliriaceae Lanariaceae Laxmanniaceae Orchidaceae Ruscaceae Tecophilaeaceae Themidaceae Xanthorrhoea Xeronema Asparagales is an order of monocots which includes a number of families of non-woody plants. ... Genera Albuca Alrawia Amphisiphon Androsiphon Bellevalia Botryanthus Bowiea Brachyscypha Brimeura Chionodoxa x Chionoscilla Daubenya Dipcadi Drimia Drimiopsis Eucomis Fortunatia Galtonia Hastingsia Hesperocallis Hyacinthella Hyacinthoides Hyacinthus Lachenalia Ledebouria Leopoldia Litanthus Massonia Muscari Muscarimia Neopatersonia Ornithogalum Polyxena Pseudogaltonia Pseudomuscari Puschkinia Rhadamanthus Rhodocodon Schizobasis Schoenolirion Scilla Sypharissa Thuranthos Urginea Veltheimia Whiteheadia The Hyacinthaceae... Species See text Scilla (squill) is a genus of bulbous perennial herbs in the hyacinth family Hyacinthaceae. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ...


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