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Dilleniaceae is the botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 for a family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It is known to gardeners for the genus Hibbertia
Hibbertia

Hibbertia, or Guinea flower, is a genus of perennial shrubs, trailing shrubs and climbers of the family Dilleniaceae. The five-petalled flowers of all species are varying shades of yellow, with the exception of Hibbertia stellaris, Hibbertia miniata and Hibbertia selkii , a recently named species from the Stirling Ranges, whi...
, which contains many commercially valuable garden species.

The family consists of about a dozen genera, of a few hundred species, found in the tropics and sub-tropics plus entire Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. The species are mostly woody plants, but range from herbaceous plants up to large trees.

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...
, of 2003 (unchanged from 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....
, of 1998), also recognizes this family, unplaced as to order, assigned to the clade core eudicots.

APG II debates either including it in order Caryophyllales
Caryophyllales

Caryophyllales is an Order of flowering plants that includes the cactus, Dianthus caryophylluss, amaranths, ice plants, and most carnivorous plants....
 or reinstating the order Dilleniales
Dilleniales

Dilleniales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The Cronquist system, of 1981, recognized such order and placed it in subclass Dilleniidae....
 for just this one family, but decides to leave it unplaced.








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Dilleniaceae is the botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 for a family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It is known to gardeners for the genus Hibbertia
Hibbertia

Hibbertia, or Guinea flower, is a genus of perennial shrubs, trailing shrubs and climbers of the family Dilleniaceae. The five-petalled flowers of all species are varying shades of yellow, with the exception of Hibbertia stellaris, Hibbertia miniata and Hibbertia selkii , a recently named species from the Stirling Ranges, whi...
, which contains many commercially valuable garden species.

The family consists of about a dozen genera, of a few hundred species, found in the tropics and sub-tropics plus entire Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. The species are mostly woody plants, but range from herbaceous plants up to large trees.

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...
, of 2003 (unchanged from 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....
, of 1998), also recognizes this family, unplaced as to order, assigned to the clade core eudicots.

APG II debates either including it in order Caryophyllales
Caryophyllales

Caryophyllales is an Order of flowering plants that includes the cactus, Dianthus caryophylluss, amaranths, ice plants, and most carnivorous plants....
 or reinstating the order Dilleniales
Dilleniales

Dilleniales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The Cronquist system, of 1981, recognized such order and placed it in subclass Dilleniidae....
 for just this one family, but decides to leave it unplaced.

External links

  • in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). : descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 3 May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.