Asphodelaceae Juss.

Evergreen perennials, sometimes shrubby or arborescent. Leaves simple, alternate, sessile, in dense rosettes at stem ends, succulent, often spine-pointed; margins often toothed. Flowers bisexual, in a terminal spike, raceme, or panicle on a scape-like axillary shoot. Sepals 3, petaloid, connivent or connate into a straight or swollen tube; limb regular or bilabiate. Petals 3, often free. Stamens 6, hypogynous; anthers longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary trilocular, superior; placentation axile; ovules numerous; septal nectaries usually present; style 1; stigma discoid or trilobate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, rarely fleshy and berry-like. Seeds few to many, commonly winged or flattened.