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Comospermum

Comospermum is a genus of one species of flowering plant found in southern Japan. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Convallarioideae.

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Comospermum
Cultivated in Osaka Prefectural Flower Garden ,Japan
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Convallarioideae
Genus: Comospermum
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Species:
C. yedoense
Binomial name
Comospermum yedoense
(Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav.) Rauschert

Comospermum is a genus of one species of flowering plant found in southern Japan.1 In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Convallarioideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae).2

The only species is Comospermum yedoense (Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav.) Rauschert.

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  1. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2011-05-26, search for "Comospermum"
  2. Chase, M.W.; Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), "A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 132–136, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x