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Alliaceae occurs as family of herbaceous perennial plants. It is monocots, part of order Asparagales.

Genus Allium includes several crucial food plants, including Onion (Allium cepa), Chives (A. schoenoprasum), Garlic (A. sativum & The. scordoprasum), & Leek (A. porrum).

A Alliaceae come closely related ii more families in a sequentially Asparagales, the amaryllis personal (Amaryllidaceae) and a personal Agapanthaceae, which includes the lone genus Agapanthus. According to a close relationship between a ternion families, a Angiosperm Phylogeny Group recognizes a choice of including a Amaryllidaceae & the Agapanthaceae inside personal Alliaceae.

Genera
Many genera that were historically classified in the Alliaceae, including Androstephium, Bessera, Bloomeria, Brodiaea, Dandya, Dichelostemma, Milla, Petronymphe, Triteleia, and Triteleiopsis, are nowadays more and more thought to represent the separate personal, Themidaceae.

Allium
Ancrumia
Caloscordum
Erinna
Garaventia
Gethyum
Gilliesia
Ipheion
Leucocoryne
Miersia
Milula
Muilla
Nectaroscordum
Nothoscordum
Solaria (genus)
Speea
Trichlora
Tristagma
Tulbhagia
Zoelnerallium

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Description of Alliaceae
Habit and leaf form, anatomy, morphology, physiology, biochemistry, geography.






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