Hyacinthoides

Hyacinthoides
Hyacinthoides × massartiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Scilloideae
Genus: Hyacinthoides
Heist. ex P. C. Fabricius
Type species
Hyacinthoides hispanica
(Mill.) Rothm.
Synonyms 
  • Usteria Medik.
  • Hylomenes Salisb.
  • Hyacinthoides Medik.
  • Endymion Dumort.
  • Agraphis Link
  • Lagocodes Raf.
  • Somera Salisb.
  • Apsanthea Jord. in Jordan & Fourreau

Hyacinthoides /ˌhaɪəsɪnˈθɔɪdiːz/ is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, known as bluebells.

Systematics

Hyacinthoides is classified in the subfamily Scilloideae (now part of the family Asparagaceae, but formerly treated as a separate family, called Hyacinthaceae), alongside genera such as Scilla and Ornithogalum. Hyacinthoides is differentiated from these other genera by the presence of two bracts at the base of each flower, rather than one bract per flower or no bracts in the other genera.

Species

According to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families as of July 2012, the genus contains 11 species and one interspecific hybrid. The majority of species are distributed around the Mediterranean Basin, with only one species, Hyacinthoides non-scripta (the familiar spring flower of bluebell woods in the British Isles and elsewhere) occurring further north in north-western Europe. Hyacinthoides species belong, according to analysis using molecular phylogenetics, to three groups.

non-scriptahispanica group
mauritanica group
  • Hyacinthoides flahaultiana (Emb.) Dobignard – south-west Morocco
  • Hyacinthoides mauritanica (Schousb.) Speta – south-west Portugal, north Morocco
  • Hyacinthoides reverchonii (Degen & Hervier) Speta – Spain (Sierra de Cazorla)
italica group
  • Hyacinthoides aristidis (Coss.) Rothm. – Algeria to Tunisia
  • Hyacinthoides ciliolata (Pomel) Rumsey – north-east Tunisia
  • Hyacinthoides italica (L.) Rothm. (Italian bluebell) – south-east France to north-west Italy
  • Hyacinthoides lingulata (Poir.) Rothm. – north-west Africa

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