Mackinlayaceae
Encyclopedia
Mackinlayoideae is a subfamily of plant
s containing about 67 species in six genera. In the APG II system
it was treated at family rank as Mackinlayaceae, but since then it has been demoted to a subfamily of Apiaceae
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Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
s containing about 67 species in six genera. In 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 It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was superseded in 2009...
it was treated at family rank as Mackinlayaceae, but since then it has been demoted to a subfamily of Apiaceae
Apiaceae
The Apiaceae , commonly known as carrot or parsley family, is a group of mostly aromatic plants with hollow stems. The family is large, with more than 3,700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants...
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