1	"Leaves usually reduced and scalelike but leaf-like modified branches (cladodes) often present; tepals 2-5 mm long; plants scrambling vines or erect shrubs or subshrubs;"	Asparagus
1	"Leaves well developed, often thick; cladodes not present; tepals usually more than 5 mm long; plants of various habits, often with bulbs, corms or rhizomes, often scapose"	2
2	"Inflorescences axillary; stamens inserted at the top of the perianth tube (Dracaenaceae)"	3
2	"Inflorescences terminal, plants with a well-developed basal rosette, often scapose"	4
3	"Plants treelike with leaves in dense rosettes at ends of branches"	"Dracaena {Dracaena ombet}"
3	"Plants not treelike, even if aerial stems present, leaves not in dense rosettes at ends of branches"	Sansevieria
4	"Tepals 17-20 mm long; plants with a well-developed basal leaf rosette and terminal peduncle; leaves more than 7 cm wide"	"Agave {Agave sisalana}"
4	"Tepals 17-20 mm long; plants with a well-developed basal leaf rosette and terminal peduncle; leaves more than 7 cm wide"	5
5	"Plants with rhizomes, fleshy roots, or tubers; seeds flat or swollen, sometimes rounded or angular; filaments more or less terete, not wide and flattened"	6
5	"Plants with bulbs; seeds rounded to angular; filaments often wide and flattened"	7
6	"Flowers solitary at each node of the inflorescences, subtended by 1 bract; roots without tubers; pedicels not articulated; seeds more or less swoole"	Anthericum
6	"Flowers often more than 1 at each node of the inflorescence or, if only 1, subtended by 2 bracts; roots often with tubers; pedicels often articulate; seeds flat or folded"	Chlorophytum
7	"At least the lower bracts with a basal spur; leaves usually produced after the flowers"	Drimia
7	"Bracts not spurred; leaves produced at more or less the same time as the flowers"	8
8	"Inner tepals erect, outer tepals more or less spreading, at least 8 mm long"	9
8	"All tepals similar or, if inner tepals erect and outer more or less spreading, tepals less than 6 mm long"	10
9	"Tepals free, persistent, cream to yellow, without appendages"	"Albuca {Albuca abyssinica}"
9	"Tepals united at the base, falling off after flowering, dull greeen or brown, the outer usually with a tail-like appendage"	"Dipcadi {Dipcadi viride}"
10	"Styles about 1 mm long, deciduous; pedicels up to 1 mm long; bracts absent"	Drimiopsis
10	"Styles much longer, persistent; pedicels usually much longer; bracts present"	11
11	"Leaves linear, not spotted"	Ornithogalum
11	"Leaves ovate to oblanceolate or elliptic, often with purple or dark green spots"	Ledebouria