Chamaexeros
Encyclopedia
Chamaexeros is a genus
of tufted perennial herbs in the family
Asparagaceae
, subfamily Lomandroideae
(formerly family Laxmanniaceae).
Species include:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of tufted perennial herbs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.In earlier classification systems, the species involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae...
, subfamily Lomandroideae
Lomandroideae
Lomandroideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales, according to the APG III system of 2009. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Lomandra. The group has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae...
(formerly family Laxmanniaceae).
Species include:
- Chamaexeros fimbriata (F.Muell.) Benth.
- Chamaexeros longicaulis T.D.Macfarl.
- Chamaexeros macranthera Kuchel
- Chamaexeros serra (Endl.) Benth. Little Fringe-leaf