{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Alliaceae
| image = Ramsons 700.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''[[Allium ursinum]]''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = '''Alliaceae'''
| familia_authority = [[August Johann Georg Karl Batsch|Batsch]] ex [[Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen|Borkh.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''Alliaceae''' is a [[Family (biology)|family]] of herbaceous [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[flowering plants]]. They are [[monocot]]s, part of [[Order (biology)|order]] [[Asparagales]]. The family has been widely but not universally recognised; in the past, the plants involved were often treated as belonging to the family [[Liliaceae]], and still are by some botanists.

The [[APG II system]] of 2003 recognises the family and places it in the order [[Asparagales]] in the clade [[monocots]]. APG II allows two options of the circumscription of the family:
* Alliaceae ''sensu lato'' ("in the wider sense"), including all the plants that were assigned to the families [[Agapanthaceae]], Alliaceae and [[Amaryllidaceae]] in the 1998 [[Angiosperm Phylogeny Group|APG]].
* Alliaceae ''sensu stricto'' ("in the strict sense"), unchanged from the 1998 APG system, excluding the plants then forming the families Agapanthaceae and Amaryllidaceae.

Note that quite a few of the plants that were once included in family Alliaceae are assigned to the family [[Themidaceae]] by both APG and APG II.

The most important genus is ''[[Allium]]'', which includes several important food plants, including [[onion]]s (''Allium cepa''), [[chives]] (''A. schoenoprasum''), [[garlic]] (''A. sativum'' and ''A. scordoprasum''), and [[Leek (vegetable)|leek]]s (''A. porrum'').

===Genera===
The following genera are included in the Alliaceae ''sensu stricto'':
{|
|
*''[[Allium]]''
*''[[Ancrumia]]''
*''[[Caloscordum]]''
*''[[Erinna (genus)|Erinna]]''
*''[[Garaventia]]''
*''[[Gethyum]]''
*''[[Gilliesia]]''
*''[[Ipheion]]''
*''[[Leucocoryne]]''
*''[[Miersia]]''
|
*''[[Milula]]''
*''[[Muilla]]''
*''[[Nectaroscordum]]'' (Sicilian Honey Lily)
*''[[Nothoscordum]]''
*''[[Solaria (genus)]]''
*''[[Speea]]''
*''[[Trichlora]]''
*''[[Tristagma]]''
*''[[Tulbhagia]]''
*''[[Zoelnerallium]]''
|}

The genera ''[[Androstephium]]'', ''[[Bessera]]'', ''[[Bloomeria]]'', ''[[Brodiaea]]'', ''[[Dandya]]'', ''[[Dichelostemma]]'', ''[[Milla]]'', ''[[Petronymphe]]'', ''[[Triteleia]]'', and ''[[Triteleiopsis]]'' are now treated in the family [[Themidaceae]].

==References==

Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase. 1996. Resurrection of Themidaceae for the Brodiaea alliance, and Recircumscription of Alliaceae, Amaryllidaceae and Agapanthoideae. ''Taxon'' 45: 441-451 ([http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-0262(199608)45%3A3%3C441%3AROTFTB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M#abstract abstract])

==External links==
{{commonscat|Alliaceae}}
*[http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/orders/asparagalesweb.htm#Alliaceae Alliaceae] in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb Angiosperm Phylogeny Website]. Version 7, May 2006.
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/alliacea.htm Alliaceae] [sensu lato] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ ''The families of flowering plants'']
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10507 Liliaceae in ''Flora of North America'']
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=40553&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser] [Alliaceae sensu stricto]
* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Alliaceae links at CSDL, Texas]

[[Category:Alliaceae]]
[[Category:Plant families]]

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