Griffineae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamilia: Amaryllidoideae
Tribus: Griffineae
Genera: Griffinia - Worsleya
Name

Griffineae Ravenna, Pl. Life 30: 65. 1974.
References

Amaryllidaceae.org: Griffineae.

The tribe Griffineae (in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae) includes 2 genera with 22 species from South America which are actually endemic to Brazil. A typical character of the representatives of the tribe are the flowers - They are with blue or lilac color collected into an umbel. Only the members of this tribe and the genus Lycoris are able to form flowers with such color in the whole family Amaryllidaceae. The plants in this group are typical perennial flowers which are producing bulbs. The leaves are green, with elliptical form in the most of the cases but in some members as in Worsleya they are sword-shaped.[3]

Taxonomy

The Müller-Doblies' (1996) placed Griffinia in its own subtribe Griffiniinae (of tribe Hippeastreae) and did not recognise Worsleya, which they submerged in Phycella.[2] In contrast, Meerow and Snijman (1998) resurrected it, placing both genera within Hippeastreae.[4] Subsequently, molecular phylogenetic studies demonstrated that Griffineae was a distinct and separate tribe.[5]
Phylogeny

The placement of Griffineae within subfamily Amaryllidoideae is shown in the following cladogram, where this tribe is shown as a sister group to the Hippeastreae, forming the Hippeastroid subclade, of two American clades:[6]
Cladogram: Tribes of subfamily Amaryllidoideae
Subfamily Amaryllidoideae

Subfamily Amaryllidoideae Africa  Tribe Amaryllideae       Africa  Tribe Cyrtantheae     Africa  Tribe Haemantheae   Australasia Tribe Calostemmateae         Eurasian clade Asia Tribe Lycorideae   Mediterranean   Tribe Galantheae       Tribe Pancratieae     Tribe Narcisseae         American clade Hippeastroid clade   Tribe Griffineae     Tribe Hippeastreae     Andean clade     Tribe Eustephieae         Tribe Eucharideae/Stenomesseae         Tribe Clinantheae     Tribe Hymenocallideae

 
 
Subdivision

Two genera:

Griffinia
Worsleya

References

Ravenna P. (1974) Studies in the genus Griffinia. Plant Life 30: 64–70 (Pl. Life (Stanford) 30: 65 (1974)).
Müller-Doblies & Müller-Doblies 1996.
Vigneron 2008.
Meerow & Snijman 1998.
Meerow & Snijman 2006.

Meerow et al. 2000.

Bibliography

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Meerow, Alan. "Towards a phylogeny of the Amaryllidaceae". In Rudall et al. (1995), pp. 169–179.
Meerow, AW; Snijman, DA. "Amaryllidaceae". In Kubitzki (1998), pp. 83–110.. (additional excerpts)
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Meerow, A.W.; Fay, M.F.; Guy, C.L.; Li, Q.-B.; Zaman, F.Q.; Chase, M.W. (1999). "Systematics of Amaryllidaceae based on cladistic analysis of plastid rbcL and trnL-F sequence data". Am. J. Bot. 86 (9): 1325–1345. doi:10.2307/2656780. JSTOR 2656780. PMID 10487820.
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