'''Amarylloidinae''' is a now obsolete informal name for an "infrafamily" within the Amaryllidaceae (Amaryllis) family, erected by Hamilton Traub. This grouping was designed to fill a perceived gap between the formal rank of subfamily and tribes. In his treatment of this family, he divided it first into four subfamilies. Within subfamily Amarylloideae he then divided his sixteen tribes into two infrafamilies, Amarylloidinae (12 tribes) and '''Pancratioidinae''' (4 tribes),{{sfn|Traub|1963}} both of which were subsequently demonstrated to be polyphyletic,<ref name=Meerow1998/> and hence were abandoned by Dahlgren, who used no rank between family and tribe. On the other hand, he also used a much more restricted Amaryllidaceae corresponding to Traub's subfamily Amarylloideae. Thus Traub's Amarylloideae most closely resembles subfamily Amaryllidoideae ''sensu'' APGIII.{{sfn|Dahlgren|Clifford|Yeo|1985}}
Of these infrafamilies, the smaller Pancratioidinae represents the Andean clade of Amaryllidoideae ''sensu'' APGIII, together with the Pancratieae from the Eurasian clade, hence the paraphyly. For a table of Traub's infrafamilies and tribes, and their subsequent disposition, see Subdivision of Amaryllidoideae.
== References == {{Reflist|refs= * <ref name=Meerow1998>{{harvnb|Meerow|Snijman|1998|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=RSfrCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 p. 91]}}</ref> }}
== Bibliography == {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last1=Dahlgren |first1=R.M. |last2=Clifford |first2=H.T. |last3=Yeo |first3=P.F. |authorlink1=Rolf Dahlgren|title=The families of the monocotyledons |year=1985 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |location=Berlin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3iGndTFY0skC|isbn= 978-3-642-64903-5| access-date=10 February 2014}} * {{cite book|last1=Meerow|first1=AW|title=Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons|last2=Snijman|first2=DA|authorlink1=Alan Meerow|pages=83–110|doi=10.1007/978-3-662-03533-7_11|year=1998|isbn=978-3-642-08377-8|s2cid=240114483 }}, in {{harvtxt|Kubitzki|1998}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FyPVYzL76sMC&pg=PA85 (additional excerpts)] * {{cite book|editor-last=Kubitzki|editor-first=K.|editor-link=Klaus Kubitzki|title=The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol.3|year=1998|publisher=Springer-Verlag|location=Berlin, Germany|isbn=978-3-540-64060-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FyPVYzL76sMC|access-date=14 January 2014}} * {{cite book|last1=Traub|first1=H.P.|author-link=Hamilton Traub|title=Genera of the Amaryllidaceae|series=Genera of organisms |url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006929270;view=1up;seq=3|date=1963|publisher=American Plant Life Society|location=La Jolla, California}}{{refend}}
Category:Amaryllidoideae Category:Historically recognized angiosperm taxa