Asparagales is an order of flowering plants. The order must include the family Asparagaceae, but other families included in the order have varied markedly between different classifications.
The APG II system of 2003, places the order in the clade monocots and uses the following circumscription:
Note: "+ ..." = optional segregrate family, that may be split off from the preceding family.
APG II has consolidated some of the families in the earlier APG system, while recognizing an alternative, that allows smaller families to be seggregated and still follow the 'APG system'. Under the new classification system a taxonomist could, for example, correctly choose to include the daylilies (Hemerocallis) in family Hemerocallidaceae, or in family Xanthorrhoeaceae.
The APG system of 1998 also placed the order in the clade monocots but used this circumscription:
The volume (1998) in the Kubitzki series of reference books on vascular plants used this circumscription:
The Dahlgren system placed the order in superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae monocotyledons of class Magnoliopsida angiosperms and used this circumscription:
The Cronquist system did not recognise the order, and placed many of the plants involved in order Liliales (in subclass Liliidae in class Liliopsida monocotyledons). Some genera were even included in family Liliaceae.
The Wettstein system, last revision of 1935, did not recognise such an order, and placed many of the plants involved in order Liliiflorae in class Monocotyledones.
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