In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies.... of flowering plants. Although widely recognized in most plant classifications (notably the Cronquist system
Cronquist system
A list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants . This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants .... ), the APG system
APG system
A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes.... (1998) and the APG II system
APG II system
A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in... (2003) have included these plants in the family Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae
The flowering plant family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, contains about 160 genera and 2,400 species. Most of these species are herbs or shrubs; very few are trees or climbers.... on the basis of evidence from molecular phylogenies. Some classifications now treat this group as Amaranthaceae subfamily Chenopodioideae
Chenopodioideae
The Chenopodioideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae, formerly treated as a distinct family, Chenopodiaceae, and comprising all of the genera formerly included in this family except for those transferred to the subfamilies Salicornioideae and Salsoloideae.... , with the exception of a small number of genera now treated in the subfamilies Salicornioideae
Salicornioideae
The Salicornioideae is a subfamily of the Amaranthaceae, formerly in family Chenopodiaceae. Plants from the Salicornioideae are all succulent, coastal halophytes.... and Salsoloideae
Salsoloideae
The Salsoloideae is a subfamily of the Amaranthaceae, formerly in family Chenopodiaceae.... .
