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Lythraceae is 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 plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s. It includes 500-600 species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
 of mostly herb
Herb

A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like....
s, with some shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s and tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s, in 32 genera
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
. Lythraceae have a worldwide distribution, with most species in the tropics but ranging into temperate climate regions as well.

The family is named after the type genus, Lythrum
Lythrum

Lythrum is a genus commonly known as loosestrife. It is one of 32 genera of the family Lythraceae.Lythrum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Pavonia pavonia, Engrailed , Hebrew Character and V-pug....
, the loosestrife
Loosestrife

Loosestrife is the common name of a number of different flowering plants. The species belong to two taxonomic genus, Lythrum, within the family Lythraceae, and Lysimachia, within the family Primulaceae....
s (e.g. Lythrum salicaria Purple loosestrife
Purple loosestrife

Lythrum salicaria is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae, native to Europe, Asia, northwest Africa, and southeastern Australia....
). It now also includes the pomegranate
Pomegranate

The pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to between five and eight metres tall. The pomegranate is native to the region from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and has been cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean Basin region and the Caucasus since ancient times....
, formerly classed in a separate family Punicaceae.






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Lythraceae is 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 plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s. It includes 500-600 species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
 of mostly herb
Herb

A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like....
s, with some shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s and tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s, in 32 genera
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
. Lythraceae have a worldwide distribution, with most species in the tropics but ranging into temperate climate regions as well.

The family is named after the type genus, Lythrum
Lythrum

Lythrum is a genus commonly known as loosestrife. It is one of 32 genera of the family Lythraceae.Lythrum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Pavonia pavonia, Engrailed , Hebrew Character and V-pug....
, the loosestrife
Loosestrife

Loosestrife is the common name of a number of different flowering plants. The species belong to two taxonomic genus, Lythrum, within the family Lythraceae, and Lysimachia, within the family Primulaceae....
s (e.g. Lythrum salicaria Purple loosestrife
Purple loosestrife

Lythrum salicaria is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae, native to Europe, Asia, northwest Africa, and southeastern Australia....
). It now also includes the pomegranate
Pomegranate

The pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to between five and eight metres tall. The pomegranate is native to the region from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and has been cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean Basin region and the Caucasus since ancient times....
, formerly classed in a separate family Punicaceae. The family also includes the widely cultivated crape myrtle trees. Botanically, the leaves are usually in pairs (opposite), and flowers have petals that emerge from the rim of the calyx tube. The petals often appear crumpled.

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Genera


  • Subfamily Lythroideae Juss.
    Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

    Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a France botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today....
     ex Arn.
    George Arnott Walker-Arnott

    George Arnott Walker-Arnott was a Scotland botanist.He studied law in Edinburgh but became a botanist later. He studied the botany of North America with Sir William Hooker and collaborated with Robert Wight in studies of Indian botany....
     1832     = 'Lythraceae sensu stricto', 28 genera:
    • Adenaria
    • Ammania
      Ammania

      Ammannia is a genus of about 25 to 30 species of plants often referred to as redstems from wet areas in Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe....
    • Capuronia
    • Crenea
    • Cuphea
      Cuphea

      File:Cuphea ignea1.jpgCuphea is a genus containing about 260 species of Annual plant and perennial flowering plants native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas....
    • Decodon
    • Didiplis
    • Diplusodon
    • Galpinia
    • Ginoria
      Ginoria

      Ginoria is a genus of plant in family Lythraceae. It contains the following species :* Ginoria nudiflora, Koehne...
    • Haitia
    • Heimia
    • Hionanthera
    • Koehneria
    • Lafoensia
      Lafoensia

      Lafoensia is a genus of plant in family Lythraceae. It contains the following species :* Lafoensia pacari, St.-Hil.* Lafoensia replicata, Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl...
    • Lagerstroemia
    • Lawsonia
    • Lourtella
    • Lythrum
      Lythrum

      Lythrum is a genus commonly known as loosestrife. It is one of 32 genera of the family Lythraceae.Lythrum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Pavonia pavonia, Engrailed , Hebrew Character and V-pug....
    • Nesaea
      Nesaea

      Nesaea was one of the Nereids who gathered round Thetis in her sympathetic grief for Achilles' loss of Patroclus. This name is used to describe a genus of plants in the family Lythraceae....
    • Pehria
    • Pemphis
    • Peplis
    • Physocalymma
    • Pleurophora
    • Rotala (genus)
      Rotala (genus)

      Rotala is a genus of plants in the Lythraceae. Several species are used as aquarium plants.Species include:*Rotala hippuris*      Rotala rotundifolia...
    • Tetrataxis
      Tetrataxis

      Tetrataxis is a genus of plant in family Lythraceae. It contains the following species :* Tetrataxis salicifolia, Baker...
    • Woodfordia
      Woodfordia

      Woodfordia is a genus of bird in the Zosteropidae family.It contains the following species:* Sanford's White-eye * Bare-eyed White-eye ...
  • Subfamily Punicoideae (Horan. 1834) S. A. Graham, Thorne & Reveal 1998 = 'Punicaceae'
    • Punica
      Punica

      Punica is a small genus of fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small trees. Its better-known species is the Pomegranate . The only other species in the genus, the Punica protopunica , is endemic on the island of Socotra....
  • Subfamily Sonneratioideae (Engl.
    Adolf Engler

    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a Germany botanist. He is notable for his work on alpha taxonomy and Phytogeography, like Die Nat?rlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl Anton Eugen Prantl....
     & Gilg
    Ernest Friedrich Gilg

    Ernest Friedrich Gilg was a German botanist....
     1924) S. A. Graham, Thorne & Reveal 1998
    • Sonneratia
      Sonneratia

      Sonneratia is a genus of plants in the Family Lythraceae. Formerly the Sonneratia were placed in a family called Sonneratiaceae which included both the Sonneratia and the Duabanga, but these two are now placed in their own monotypic subfamilies of the family Lythraceae....
  • Subfamily Duabangoideae (Takht. 1986) S. A. Graham, Thorne & Reveal 1998 = 'Duabangaceae'
    • Duabanga
      Duabanga

      Duabanga is a small genus of lowland evergreen rainforest trees in southeast Asia, comprising two or three species.Duabanga was traditionally included in the ditypic family Sonneratiaceae, but it is now classified in its own monotypic subfamily Duabangoideae of the Lythraceae....
  • Subfamily Trapoideae Voigt
    Voigt

    Voigt is a surname, and may refer to:* Deborah Voigt, American opera singer* Cynthia Voigt* Edwin Edgar Voigt* Edwin de Voigt, artist and leisure manager...
     1845     = 'Trapaceae'
    • Trapa