To quote Wikipedia, "A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in April of 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG. It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was superseded in 2009 by a further revision, the APG III system." In APG II Alliaceae optionally included Agapanthaceae and Amaryllidaceae. So you could choose to include these or to keep them separate. Most of us didn't choose to include them. In APG II, there were a number of families for which two alternate versions were permitted, wider (one larger family) and narrower (2-10 more narrowly defined families). APG III eliminates these alternative versions because according to Kew the user community did not like this concept - they preferred that the APG authors decide which was better. I'm not sure how they came up with this view of what the user community wanted. On the Kew web site it is stated that this makes classification simpler. I suppose this is because there are fewer choices. We barely finished the family section on the wiki and now if we choose to follow APG III there will be changes. I have listed all the families below we have a least one genus and one species in that genus illustrated on the wiki and the new family APG III is advising for some of them. I was interested in hearing John Manning who is an expert on Hyacinthaeae which would be gone under APG III saying we could choose to abide by APG II and not go to APG III. What does this user community prefer to do? Are we doing away with Alliaceae, Agapanthaceae, Agavaceae, Anthericaceae, Asphodelaceae, Convallariaceae, Eriospermaceae, Hemerocallidaceae, Hyacinthaceae, Themidaceae, and Trilliaceae to name a few of the families that would be history ? Here's the list from the wiki. Those families that would be included in an expanded family have an equal sign after them. Asparagaceae expands dramatically under this system and Amaryllidaceae seems to have won out over Alliaceae. Liliaceae has been retained, but a lot of the genera that once were in Liliaceae would now be in Asparagaceae. I hope I got them all. Agapanthaceae = Alliaceae = Amaryllidaceae Agavaceae = Asparagaceae Alliaceae = Amaryllidaceae Alstroemeriaceae Amaryllidaceae Anthericaceae = Agavaceae = Asparagaceae Apocynaceae Aponogetonaceae Araceae Araliaceae Aristolochiaceae Asclepiadaceae = Apocynaceae Asparagaceae Asphodelaceae = Xanthorrhoeaceae Asteraceae Balsaminaceae Begoniaceae Berberidaceae Blandfordiaceae Brassicaceae Calochortaceae = Liliaceae Campanulaceae Cannaceae Colchicaceae Commelinaceae Convallariaceae = Asparagaceae Convolvulaceae Costaceae Crassulaceae Cucurbitaceae Cyperaceae Dioscoreaceae Doryanthaceae Droseraceae Eriospermaceae = Asparagaceae Euphorbiaceae Fabaceae Fumariaceae = Papaveraceae Geraniaceae Gesneriaceae Haemodoraceae Heliconiaceae Hemerocallidaceae = Xanthorrhoeaceae Hesperocallidaceae = Asparagaceae Hyacinthaceae = Asparagaceae Hypoxidaceae Iridaceae Ixioliriaceae Lamiaceae Liliaceae Lowiaceae Marantaceae Melanthiaceae Musaceae Myrsinaceae = Primulaceae Nelumbonaceae Nymphaeaceae Onagraceae Orchidaceae Oxalidaceae Paeoniaceae Papaveraceae Portulacaceae Primulaceae Ranunculaceae Ruscaceae = Asparagaceae Solanaceae Strelitziaceae Tecophilaeaceae Themidaceae = Asparagaceae Trilliaceae = Melanthiaceae Tropaeolaceae Velloziaceae Xanthorrhoeaceae Xeronemataceae Zingiberaceae