Flacourtiaceae
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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)
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