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Common name:        X                                                                            

Etymology:   

Flowers:                  

• x

Fruit:                         

• x

Leaves:         

•  x

Habit:        

• It is a group of herbaceous perennials with rhizomes or corms

• The family is characterized by the presence of colchicine

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Habitat:   

• x 

Distribution:                  

Species:                     

• World:            285  S,     15 G

• Australia:      S,    G

Additional notes:        

• The following is an alphabetic list of genera usually included in this family :

  • Baeometra, Burchardia, Camptorrhiza, Colchicum (including Androcymbium, Bulbocodium and Merendera), Disporum,

  • Gloriosa (including Littonia), Hexacyrtis, Iphigenia, Kuntheria, Ornithoglossum, Sandersonia, Schelhammera, Tripladenia

  • Uvularia, Wurmbea (including Neodregea and Onixotis)

• Nguyen et al.(2013) proposed classifying the family on the basis of subfamilies:

  • Subfamily Uvularioideae (distribution: Eastern Asia and North America)

    • Tribe Uvularieae (Disporum, Uvularia)

  • Subfamily Wurmbeoideae (distribution: Australia, Africa, Europe, central and tropical Asia)

    • Tribe Burchardieae (Burchardia)

    • Tribe Tripladenieae (Tripladenia, Schelhammera, Kuntheria)

    • Tribe Iphigenieae (Iphigenia, Camptorrhiza)

    • Tribe Angullarieae (Wurmbea, Onixotis, Neodregea, Baeometra)

    • Tribe Colchiceae (Gloriosa (including Littonia), Colchicum (including Merendera, Bulbocodium, and probably Androcymbium), Hexacyrtis, Ornithoglossum, Sandersonia

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