{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Ixiolirion tataricum 1.JPG |image_caption = ''Ixiolirion tataricum'' |parent_authority = Nakai<ref name="APG4"/> |taxon = Ixiolirion |authority = Fisch. ex Herb.<ref>{{IPNI | id = 1510-1 | accessdate = 25 July 2011}}</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name=j/> |synonyms = ''Kolpakowskia'' <small>Regel</small> |}} [[File:Ixiolirion Tataricum in Behbahan I.jpg|alt=Ixiolirion Tataricum, Behbahan|thumb|Ixiolirion Tataricum, Behbahan ]] '''''Ixiolirion''''' is a genus of flowering plants native to central and southwest Asia, first described as a genus in 1821.<ref name=j>[https://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=279441 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> Recent classifications place the group in the monogeneric family '''Ixioliriaceae''' in the order Asparagales of the monocots.<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> In earlier systems of classification, it was usually placed in the family Amaryllidaceae. [[File:Ixiolirion Tataricum in Behbahan II.jpg|alt=Ixiolirion Tataricum in Behbahan |thumb|Ixiolirion Tataricum in Behbahan, Iran]] [[File:Ixiolirion Tataricum in Deserts of Central Iran.jpg|alt=Ixiolirion Tataricum in Deserts of Central Iran|thumb|Ixiolirion Tataricum in Deserts of Central Iran]] The genus name – composed of ''Ixio''- and {{lang|la|lirion}} ('lily') – means '''Ixia''-like lily'.<ref>{{cite book|last=Plowden|first=C. Chicheley|title=A manual of plant names|url=https://archive.org/details/manualofplantnam0000plow|url-access=registration|year=1972|publisher=Allen and Unwin|isbn=978-0-04-580008-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/manualofplantnam0000plow/page/55 55]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=A. W.|title=A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ULDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA200|year=2013|publisher=Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-32005-2|page=200}}</ref>
;There are four species in this genus and family<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> * ''Ixiolirion ferganicum'' <small>Kovalevsk. & Vved.</small> - Kyrgyzstan * ''Ixiolirion karateginum'' <small>Lipsky</small> - Pakistan, Tajikistan * ''Ixiolirion songaricum'' <small>P.Yan</small> - Xinjiang * ''Ixiolirion tataricum'' <small>(Pall.) Schult. & Schult.f.</small> - Altai Krai, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Persian Gulf sheikdoms, Kashmir, Xinjiang
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Ixiolirion Tataricum in Behbahan I.jpg|''Ixiolirion tataricum'' in Behbahan, Iran File:Ixiolirion Tataricum in Deserts of Central Iran.jpg|''Ixiolirion tataricum'' in Deserts of Isfahan, Iran File:Ixiolirion Tataricum in Behbahan II.jpg|''Ixiolirion tataricum'' in Behbahan, Iran </gallery>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/ixioliri.htm Ixioliriaceae] 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. http://delta-intkey.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/ |date=2007-01-03 }} * [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=51509&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser] * [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Ixioliriaceae links at CSDL, Texas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070624185252/http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Ixioliriaceae |date=2007-06-24 }}
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Category:Asparagales genera Category:Ixioliriaceae Category:Taxa named by William Herbert (botanist)