Haemodoraceae

  
 

 

Genera : 16 - 17

Species: +/- 100

 

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Distribution: Widespread in the Southern Hemisphere (excepting New Zealand) and in Central America and the southeast US.

 

Economic Uses: Cultivated as ornamentals, with one species as the state emblem of Western Australia.

 

Defining Features of Interest: Some botanists place the family with in the Liliaceae.

 

Fossil Evidence:No known fossil record.