About Lomandra

Lomandra may be a genus of perennial herbs within the liliid monocot family, taxonomic group Lomandroideae. There area unit fifty one species, all of that area unit native to Australia; 2 of them additionally extend into Papua and New Caledonia.

It has erstwhile been assigned  to the family Dasypogonaceae, liliid monocot family or liliid monocot family. status may be a word for Lomandra.

Asparagaceae may be a family of flowering plants, placed within the order Asparagales of the monocots.

In earlier classification systems, the species concerned were typically treated as happiness to the family Liliaceae. The APG II system of 2003 allowed 2 choices on the restriction of the family: either liliid monocot family sensu lato ("in the broader sense") combining seven antecedently recognized families, or liliid monocot family sensu stricto ("in the strict sense\") consisting of only a few genera (notably Asparagus, additionally Hemiphylacus), however notwithstanding totalling many hundred species. The revised APG III system of 2009 permits solely the broader sense. A paper printed at an equivalent time planned seven subfamilies to correspond to the originally separate families.

Lomandroideae may be a taxonomic group of liliopsid flowering plants within the liliid monocot family, order Asparagales, in step with the APG III system of 2009. The taxonomic group name springs from the generic name of the kind genus, Lomandra. The cluster has antecedently been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae. within the Kubitzki system, it\'s treated as Lomandraceae Lotsy.

The taxonomic group consists of some fifteen genera and concerning one hundred eighty species from Australasia, Southeast Asia, land and therefore the Pacific Islands. the simplest known  genus is Cordyline.