1	"Scape climbing, with sterile branches; flowers unisexual; ovary half-inferior"	Bowiea
1	"Scape not climbing; flowers bisexual; ovary superior"	2
2	"Seeds rounded"	3
2	"Seeds compressed"	6
3	"Tepals free"	4
3	"Tepals fused for up to 2/3 of their length"	5
4	"Inner tepals covering style"	Albuca
4	"Inner tepals not covering style"	Ornithogalum
5	"Tepal tube longer than the lobes; floral bracts longer than the flower stalks"	Brimeura
5	"Tepal tube about as long a the lobes; bracts not longer than the flower stalks"	Galtonia
6	"Tepals multi-nerved"	7
6	"Tepals 1-nerved"	18
7	"Tepals fused at least 1/4 of their length"	8
7	"Tepals more or less free"	13
8	"Seeds fleshy or with an appendage"	9
8	"Seeds not fleshy or with appendages"	11
9	"Anthers more or less fused forming a corolla-like ring"	Puschkinia
9	"Anthers free from each other"	10
10	"Outer tepals much shorter than inner"	Lachenalia
10	"Outer and inner tepals more or less equal"	Scilla
11	"Flowers more than 2 cm long"	Veltheimia
11	"Flowers less than 2 cm long"	12
12	"Ovules 6–8 per ovary chamber"	Hyacinthus
12	"Ovules usually 2 (rarely 4) per chamber"	Muscari
13	"Flowers bell-shaped with reflexed tepal tips"	14
13	"Flowers not bell-shaped with reflexed tepal tips"	15
14	"Anther filaments basally fused to the tepals; leaves often spotted"	Ledebouria
14	"Anther filaments free; leaves never spotted"	Hyacinthoides
15	"Tepals almost closed in flower; inflorescence without apical leaves"	Drimiopsis
15	"Tepals opening widely"	16
16	"Inflorescence with a tuft of leaves at the scape apex"	Eucomis
16	"Inflorescence without a tuft of leaves at the scape apex"	17
17	"Tepals united at base"	Chionodoxa
17	"Tepals free"	Scilla
18	"Ovary hairy; inflorescence a panicle (branches sometimes reduced)"	Camassia
18	"Ovary not hairy; inflorescence a double raceme"	Chlorogalum