Dandya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Brodiaeoideae
Genus: Dandya
H.E.Moore[1]
Type species
Dandya purpusii
(Brandegee) H.E.Moore[2]

Dandya is a genus of about four species of flowering plants, all endemic to Mexico.[3][1] In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the asparagus family, and the cluster lily subfamily (formerly the family Themidaceae).[4][5]

  1. Dandya balsensis A.R.López-Ferrari & Espejo - central and southern Mexico
  2. Dandya hannibalii L.W.Lenz - Michoacán
  3. Dandya purpusii (Brandegee) H.E.Moore - Coahuila
  4. Dandya thadhowardii L.W.Lenz - Michoacán, Guerrero

References

  1. ^ a b World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2011-05-26, search for "Dandya"
  2. ^ Tropicos, Dandya H.E. Moore
  3. ^ Moore, Harold Emery 1953. Gentes Herbarum; Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants 8: 266
  4. ^ Chase, M.W.; Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), "A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 132–136, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x
  5. ^ Espejo Serena, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (1993). Las Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas una Sinopsis Florística 1(1): 1-76. Consejo Nacional de la Flora de México, México D.F.


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