Whiteheadia
Encyclopedia
Whiteheadia is a genus of plant
in family
Asparagaceae
, subfamily Scilloideae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in 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 Scilloideae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
- Whiteheadia etesionamibensisWhiteheadia etesionamibensisWhiteheadia etesionamibensis is a species of plant that is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.-References:* Loots, S. 2004. . Downloaded on 24 August 2007....
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