Juncaginaceae is the
botanical nameA 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...
of a family of flowering plants. For the past few decades such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The
APG II systemA modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in*Angiosperm Phylogeny Group . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical...
, of 2003 (unchanged from the
APG systemA modern system 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 cladistic analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene...
, of 1998), also recognizes such a family and places it in the order
AlismatalesAlismatales is an order of flowering plants. The order will of necessity contain the family Alismataceae.-Taxonomy:The APG II system, of 2003 assigns the order to the clade monocots and uses this circumscription:...
, in the clade monocots. The family includes perhaps four genera (with
Triglochin the best known), totalling about a dozen species, which are found in cold or temperate regions in both the
NorthernThe Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of the equator—the word hemisphere literally means 'half sphere'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
and
Southern HemisphereThe Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is south of the equator—the word hemisphere literally means 'half ball'...
.
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Juncaginaceae is the
botanical nameA 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...
of a family of flowering plants. For the past few decades such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The
APG II systemA modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in*Angiosperm Phylogeny Group . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical...
, of 2003 (unchanged from the
APG systemA modern system 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 cladistic analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene...
, of 1998), also recognizes such a family and places it in the order
AlismatalesAlismatales is an order of flowering plants. The order will of necessity contain the family Alismataceae.-Taxonomy:The APG II system, of 2003 assigns the order to the clade monocots and uses this circumscription:...
, in the clade monocots. The family includes perhaps four genera (with
Triglochin the best known), totalling about a dozen species, which are found in cold or temperate regions in both the
NorthernThe Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of the equator—the word hemisphere literally means 'half sphere'. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
and
Southern HemisphereThe Southern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is south of the equator—the word hemisphere literally means 'half ball'...
.
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