| Nothoscordum | |
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| Nothoscordum striatum [1] | |
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| Nothoscordum gracile | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Tribe: | Gilliesieae |
| Genus: | Nothoscordum Kunth (1843), nom. cons. |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Nothoscordum is a genus of New World plants in the onion tribe within the Amaryllis family. [3] It is probably paraphyletic. [4] The genus is native to North, Central and South America, though a few species have become naturalized in various parts of the Old World. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
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Nothoscordum is a conserved name. [10] It's synonymous with Pseudoscordum, which was described in 1837 by William Herbert as a reclassification of some Allium species. [11] [12] The term Nothoscordum comes from the fourth volume of Carl Sigismund Kunth's work Enum. Pl., published six years later in 1843. [13]
