Tenuinucellate ovules are also recorded in two closely related American genera of Iridaceae: Gelasine (Kenton & Rudall, 1987) and Eleutherine (Venkateswarlu et al., 1980), and in some
Phormiaceae sensu lato (Chase et al., 1996): Dianella, Stypandra, Phormium, and Hemerocallis (Cave, 1955, 1975).