{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}} {{Expand Spanish|Hypoxidaceae|topic=sci|date=December 2009}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Hypoxis_hemerocallidea_BotGardBln1105InflorescenceHabitus.JPG |image_caption = ''Hypoxis hemerocallidea'' |taxon = Hypoxidaceae |authority = R.Br.<ref name="APG4"/> |subdivision_ranks = Genera |subdivision = *''Curculigo'' {{small|Gaertn.}} (syn. ''Hypoxidia'', ''Molineria'') *''Empodium'' {{small|Salisb.}} *''Hypoxis'' {{small|L.}} *''Pauridia'' {{small|Harv.}} *''Sinocurculigo'' {{small|Z.J.Liu, L.J.Chen & K.Wei Liu}} |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77126735-1 ''Hypoxidaceae'' R.Br.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 9 October 2023.</ref> }}
'''Hypoxidaceae''' is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.<ref name="APG4"/>
The APG IV system of 2016 (unchanged from the 1998, 2003, and 2009 versions) accepts this family.<ref name="APG3"/><ref name="APG4"/> The family consists of five genera,<ref name = powo/> with around 160 species.<ref name="Christenhusz-Byng2016"/>
The members of the family are small to medium herbs, with grass-like leaves and an invisible stem, modified into a corm or a rhizome. The flowers are born on leafless shoots, also called scapes. The flowers are trimerous, radially symmetric. The ovary is inferior, developing into a capsule or a berry.
==Uses== Curculin is a taste modifying sweet protein that was discovered from the fruit of a plant in this family (''Curculigo latifolia''). Consuming it causes water to taste sweet for a duration.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="APG3">{{Citation |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III|year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=161 |issue=2|pages=105–121|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free|hdl=10654/18083|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name="APG4">{{Cite journal|author=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2016|title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=181|issue=1|pages=1–20|issn=0024-4074|doi=10.1111/boj.12385|doi-access=free}}</ref>
<ref name="Christenhusz-Byng2016">{{cite journal |author1=Christenhusz, M. J. M. |author2=Byng, J. W. | year = 2016 | title = The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase | journal = Phytotaxa | volume = 261 | pages = 201–217 | url = http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598 | doi = 10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1 | issue = 3 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Hypoxidaceae}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com//angio/www/hypoxida.htm Hypoxidaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ The families of flowering plants]: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.'' Version: 27 April 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/ *[http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Hypoxidaceae links at CSDL, Texas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012061309/http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Hypoxidaceae |date=2008-10-12 }}
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Category:Asparagales families Category:Hypoxidaceae