These species are more closely allied to Erythronium, although some authors believe that all three genera of the Tulipeae could be treated as a single genus. Some species with a more eastern distribution (China, Korea, Japan) formerly classified as Tulipa are now considered as the separate genus Amana, including Amana edulis ( Tulipa edulis). Tribe Lilieae includes seven other genera in addition to Tulipa. Within Liliaceae, Tulipa is placed within Lilioideae, one of three subfamilies, with two tribes. Tulipa is a genus of the Liliaceae (lily) family, once one of the largest family of monocots, but which molecular phylogenetics has shown to be a much smaller discrete family with only 15 genera. The taxonomy of Tulipa has always been complex and difficult for many reasons. While tulips were known from at least the 12th century in Persia, and appear in decorative art in Turkey in the 13th century, the first description in European botanical literature, was by Conrad Gesner in his De Hortus Germanica (1561), which he referred to as Tulipa turcarum, and states he saw in a garden in Augsburg in 1559.
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