Phytolaccaceae

Phytolaccaceae
Phytolacca esculenta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Phytolaccaceae
R.Br.[1][2]
Genera

See text.

Synonyms

Agdestidaceae Nakai
Hilleriaceae Nakai
Petiveriaceae C.Agardh
Rivinaceae C.Agardh[1]

Phytolaccaceae is a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been almost universally recognized by taxonomists, although its circumscription has varied. It is also known as the Pokeweed family.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family comprises about 16 genera, totalling a hundred species. It is divided into the subfamilies Agdestioideae, Phytolaccoideae, and Rivinioideae by the Takhtajan system.[3]

Genera

The Phytolaccaceae includes the following genera:[4]

  • Agdestis Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
  • Anisomeria D.Don
  • Ercilla A.Juss.
  • Gallesia Casar.
  • Hilleria Vell.
  • Ledenbergia Klotzsch ex Moq.
  • Monococcus F.Muell.

Formerly placed here

The following genera were previously included in the Phytolaccaceae:[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Family: Phytolaccaceae R. Br., nom. cons.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2003-01-17. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  2. ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
  3. ↑ Takhtajan, Armen (2009). Flowering Plants (2 ed.). Springer. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-4020-9608-2.
  4. ↑ "GRIN Genera of Phytolaccaceae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
  5. ↑ "GRIN genera sometimes placed in Phytolaccaceae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2015-10-13.

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