Flacourtiaceae

Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of flowering plant

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s whose former members have been scattered to various other families, mostly to Achariaceae

Achariaceae

Achariaceae is a family of flowering plants, formerly consisting of 6 species in 3 genera of herb and shrubs endemic to southern Africa. More recently, the APG II system has greatly expanded the scope of the family by including many genera previously classified in the Flacourtiaceae. Molecular...

, Samydaceae

Samydaceae

Samydaceae is a family of tropical and subtropical woody plants, its best known genus being Casearia. It has always been of uncertain placement, in the past usually being submerged in the family Flacourtiaceae....

, and Salicaceae

Salicaceae

Salicaceae are a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 55 genera....

. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became a dumping ground for odd and anomalous genera, gradually making the family even more heterogeneous. In 1975, Hermann Sleumer

Hermann Otto Sleumer

Hermann Otto Sleumer was a Dutch botanist of German birth. The plant genera Sleumerodendron Virot and Sleumeria Utteridge, Nagam. & Teo , are named for him....

 said "Flacourtiaceae as a family is a fiction; only the tribes

Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 are homogeneous."

In Cronquist's classification

Cronquist system

The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants. It was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants .Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two...

, it included 89 genera and more than 800 living species. Of these, many, including the type genus

Type genus

In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...

 Flacourtia

Flacourtia

Flacourtia is a genus of flowering plants in the in the willow family, Salicaceae. It was previously placed in the now defunct family Flacourtiaceae. The generic name honors Étienne de Flacourt , a governor of Madagascar. It contains 15 species of shrubs and small trees that are native to the...

, have now been transferred to the Salicaceae

Salicaceae

Salicaceae are a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 55 genera....

 in the molecular phylogeny

Molecular phylogeny

Molecular phylogenetics is the analysis of hereditary molecular differences, mainly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. The result of a molecular phylogenetic analysis is expressed in a phylogenetic tree...

-based classification, known as the APG II system

APG II system

The APG II system of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was superseded in 2009...

, established by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to an informal international group of systematic botanists who came together to try to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies., three...

. In the list below, Salicaceae is defined broadly. Some taxonomists would divide it into Salicaceae sensu stricto, Scyphostegiaceae, and Samydaceae

Samydaceae

Samydaceae is a family of tropical and subtropical woody plants, its best known genus being Casearia. It has always been of uncertain placement, in the past usually being submerged in the family Flacourtiaceae....

.

Genera formerly included in Flacourtiaceae (current family in brackets):

Abatia Abatia Abatia is a genus of about nine species of Central and South American trees in the willow family Salicaceae . Previously it was treated in the family Flacourtiaceae, or tribe Abatieae of the family Passifloraceae or Samydaceae by G. Bentham & J.D... - (Salicaceae) Aberia - (Salicaceae) Aphaerema - (Salicaceae) Azara Azara (plant) Azara is a genus of ten species of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to temperate to subtropical regions of South America. Azara was formerly classed in the family Flacourtiaceae.... - (Salicaceae) Banara Banara Banara is a genus of plant in family Salicaceae .... - (Salicaceae) Bartholomaea - (Salicaceae) Barteria - (Passifloraceae Passifloraceae Passifloraceae is a family of flowering plants, containing about 530 species classified in around 18 genera. They include trees, shrubs, lianas and climbing plants, and are mostly found in tropical regions.... ) Bembicia - (Salicaceae) Bennettiodendron Bennettiodendron Bennettiodendron is a genus of plant in family Salicaceae.... - (Salicaceae) Berberidopsis Berberidopsis Berberidopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the small family Berberidopsidaceae. It consists of two species:* Berberidopsis beckleri - montane tape vine, of Australia.... - (Berberidopsidaceae Berberidopsidaceae Berberidopsidaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only a few taxonomists: the plants involved have often been treated as belonging to family Flacourtiaceae.... ) Buchnerodendron - (Achariaceae Achariaceae Achariaceae is a family of flowering plants, formerly consisting of 6 species in 3 genera of herb and shrubs endemic to southern Africa. More recently, the APG II system has greatly expanded the scope of the family by including many genera previously classified in the Flacourtiaceae. Molecular... ) Byrsanthus - (Salicaceae) Calantica - (Salicaceae) Caloncoba - (Achariaceae) Camptostylus - (Achariaceae) Carrierea - (Salicaceae) Casearia Casearia Casearia is a plant genus in the family Salicaceae. The genus was included in the Flacourtiaceae under the Cronquist system of angiosperm classification, and earlier in the Samydaceae. Recent research indicates that the latter group might be reinstated as a valid family.They are sometimes employed... - (Salicaceae) Chiangiodendron - (Achariaceae) Dioncophyllum - (Dioncophyllaceae Dioncophyllaceae Dioncophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of three species of lianas native to the rainforests of western Africa.Its closest relative is Ancistrocladaceae. Both of these families lie within a clade of mostly carnivorous plants which since 1998 or so have been moved to the order... ) Dissomera - (Salicaceae) Dovyalis Dovyalis Dovyalis is a genus of shrubs and small trees. Recent genetic evidence has shown the genus to belong to the family Salicaceae; formerly it was classified in the family Flacourtiaceae... - (Salicaceae) Erythrospermum - (Achariaceae) Euceraea - (Salicaceae)

Flacourtia Flacourtia Flacourtia is a genus of flowering plants in the in the willow family, Salicaceae. It was previously placed in the now defunct family Flacourtiaceae. The generic name honors Étienne de Flacourt , a governor of Madagascar. It contains 15 species of shrubs and small trees that are native to the... - (Salicaceae) Gerrardina Gerrardina Gerrardina is a genus of two species of scrambling shrub found in eastern Africa. It is placed alone in family Gerrardiaceae. Placement are ordinal level is problematic; currently it is placed tentatively in Huerteales.-References:... - (Gerrardina Gerrardina Gerrardina is a genus of two species of scrambling shrub found in eastern Africa. It is placed alone in family Gerrardiaceae. Placement are ordinal level is problematic; currently it is placed tentatively in Huerteales.-References:... ceae) Gynocardia - (Achariaceae) Hasseltia Hasseltia Hasseltia is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae. It contains four species of small to medium-sized trees native to the neotropics, ranging from Mexico south to Brazil and Bolivia.... - (Salicaceae) Hasseltiopsis - (Salicaceae) Hecatostemon - (Salicaceae) Hemiscolopia - (Salicaceae) Homalium Homalium Homalium is a genus of plant in family Salicaceae.Species include:* Homalium betulifolium, Daniker* Homalium buxifolium, Daniker* Homalium dalzielii, Hutch.* Homalium foetidum, Benth.* Homalium gracilipes, Sleumer... - (Salicaceae) Hydnocarpus Hydnocarpus Hydnocarpus is a genus of medium to large trees of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, having alternate leaves, small dioecious racemose flowers, and capsular fruits of which several are sources of chaulmoogra oil and hydnocarpus oil.... - (Achariaceae) Idesia - (Salicaceae) Itoa - (Salicaceae) Kiggelaria - (Achariaceae) Laetia Laetia Laetia is a genus of plant in family Salicaceae .... - (Salicaceae) Lasiochlamys Lasiochlamys Lasiochlamys is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae.-Selected species:* Lasiochlamys hurlimannii Sleumer* Lasiochlamys mandjeliana Sleumer* Lasiochlamys pseudocoriacea Sleumer... - (Salicaceae) Lindackeria - (Achariaceae) Ludia Ludia (plant) Ludia is a genus of plants in family Salicaceae.Species:* Ludia mauritiana * Ludia ankaranensis * Ludia antanosarum * Ludia boinensis * Ludia brevipes... - (Salicaceae) Lunania Lunania Lunania is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae.-Selected species:* Lunania cubensis Turczaninov* Lunania dodecandra Wright* Lunania elongata Britton & P.Wilson* Lunania polydactyla Urban... - (Salicaceae) Macrohasseltia - (Salicaceae) Mocquerysia - (Salicaceae) Neopringlea - (Salicaceae) Neoptychocarpus - (Salicaceae) Olmediella - (Salicaceae) Oncoba Oncoba Oncoba is a genus of plant in family Salicaceae.... - (Salicaceae)

Ophiobotrys - (Salicaceae) Osmelia - (Salicaceae) Pangium - (Achariaceae) Phyllobotryon - (Salicaceae) Phylloclinium - (Salicaceae) Pineda Pineda (Salicaceae) Pineda is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae. It contains two species of shrubs: Pineda incana, which is native to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, and Pineda ovata, which is native to the Andes of Bolivia.... - (Salicaceae) Pleuranthodendron - (Salicaceae) Poliothyrsis - (Salicaceae) Priamosia - (Salicaceae) Prockia - (Salicaceae) Pseudoscolopia Pseudoscolopia Pseudoscolopia is a genus of plant in family Salicaceae.... - (Salicaceae) Pseudosmelia - (Salicaceae) Ryania - (Salicaceae) Ryparosa Ryparosa Ryparosa is a genus of plant in family Achariaceae.Species include:* Ryparosa fasciculata, King* Ryparosa scortechinii, King... - (Achariaceae) Samyda Samyda Samyda is a genus of plant in family Salicaceae.... - (Salicaceae) Scolopia Scolopia Scolopia is a genus of plants in family Salicaceae.Notable species are:* Scolopia oreophila Killick* Scolopia braunii & Sleumer - an Australian rainforest tree* Scolopia mundii Warb... - (Salicaceae) Tetrathylacium - (Salicaceae) Tisonia - (Salicaceae) Trichadenia Trichadenia Trichadenia is a genus of plant in family Achariaceae.Species include:* Trichadenia zeylanica, Thwaites... - (Achariaceae) Trimeria - (Salicaceae) Xylosma Xylosma Xylosma is a genus of flowering plants in the in the willow family, Salicaceae. It contains around 100 species of spiny evergreen shrubs and trees commonly known as brushhollies, xylosmas, or, more ambiguously, "logwoods"... - (Salicaceae) Xylotheca - (Achariaceae) Zuelania - (Salicaceae)