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The Zygophyllaceae, of about 250 species, are 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, also known as the bean-caper or caltrop
Caltrop

A caltrop is an antipersonnel weapon made up of two sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base ....
 family.

According to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to two international groups of systematic botany who came together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge in angiosperm relationships based upon molecular systematics studies....
 (APG II), the heterogeneous family Zygophyllaceae is unplaced to order, but included in the Eurosids I as a sister to a clade
Clade

A clade is a term used in modern alpha taxonomy, the scientific classification of living and fossil organisms, to describe a monophyletic group, defined as a group consisting of a single common ancestor and all its descendants.The term "monophyletic group" is used in this article in the conventional sense of "an a...
 composed of several orders. The name Zygophyllales can be used if one finds it appropriate to place the family Zygophyllaceae into an order.








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The Zygophyllaceae, of about 250 species, are 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, also known as the bean-caper or caltrop
Caltrop

A caltrop is an antipersonnel weapon made up of two sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base ....
 family.

According to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to two international groups of systematic botany who came together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge in angiosperm relationships based upon molecular systematics studies....
 (APG II), the heterogeneous family Zygophyllaceae is unplaced to order, but included in the Eurosids I as a sister to a clade
Clade

A clade is a term used in modern alpha taxonomy, the scientific classification of living and fossil organisms, to describe a monophyletic group, defined as a group consisting of a single common ancestor and all its descendants.The term "monophyletic group" is used in this article in the conventional sense of "an a...
 composed of several orders. The name Zygophyllales can be used if one finds it appropriate to place the family Zygophyllaceae into an order.

Synonyms

  • Balanitaceae Endl. (1841)
  • Krameriaceae Dumort. (1829) (optional synonym)
  • Tribulaceae Trautv. (1853)


Genera

  • Augea
    Augea

    Augea is a Communes of France in the Jura Departments of France in Franche-Comt? in eastern France....
  • Balanites
  • Bulnesia
  • Fagonia
    Fagonia

    Fagonia is a genus of plants in the Zygophyllaceae family. They are sometimes called fagonbushes. There are about 18 species. Their distribution includes parts of Africa, the Mediterranean, and parts of the Americas....
  • Guaiacum
    Guaiacum

    Guaiacum, or guajacum, is a genus in the family Zygophyllaceae. The six species are shrubs and trees, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas....
  • Halimiphyllum
  • Izozogia
  • Kallstroemia
    Kallstroemia

    Kallstroemia is a genus of plants in the family Zygophyllaceae, the caltrop family, with about 17 species. They are native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Americas....
  • Kelleronia
  • Krameria
  • Larrea
    Larrea

    Larrea is a genus of five species of New World evergreen shrubs that includes the Creosote bush Larrea tridentata of North America and the Jarillas of South America....
  • Metharme
  • Miltianthus
  • Morkillia
  • Neoluederitzia
    Neoluederitzia

    Neoluederitzia is a genus of plant in family Zygophyllaceae. It contains the following species :* Neoluederitzia sericeocarpa, Hans Schinz...
  • Peganum
    Peganum

    Peganum Carolus Linnaeus is a genus under the recently separated family Nitrariaceae . Formerly it used to be included in the family Zygophyllaceae....
     (now in the recently separated family Nitrariaceae
    Nitrariaceae

    Nitrariaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. It comprises three genera, Nitraria, Peganum and Tetradiclis, totalling 16 species....
    )
  • Pintoa
  • Plectrocarpa
  • Porlieria
    Porlieria

    Porlieria is a genus of plants within the family Zygophyllaceae. Species within this genus are shrubs or small trees of dry subtropical regions....
  • Roepera
  • Sarcozygium
  • Seetzenia
  • Sericodes
  • Sisyndite
  • Tetradiclis
  • Tetraena
  • Tribulopis
  • Tribulus
    Tribulus

    name="Alesia-2006">, which bears strong resemblances with the plant today named or 'puncture vine'.'Tribulus' is a genus of plants found in many warm regions....
  • Viscainoa
  • Zygophyllum
    Zygophyllum

    Zygophyllum is a genus of plant in family Zygophyllaceae. It is distributed in arid and semi-arid regions of Africa, the Mediterranean, central Asia and Australia....


External links

  • in (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.]
  • Flowers in Israel