Lardizabalaceae
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Lardizabalaceae is a family of flowering plants.
The family has been universally recognized by taxonomists, including the APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998), which places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots.
The family consist of 8-9 genera with 30-50 species of woody plants, including lianas and shrubs. The leaves are alternate, and compound (usually palmate), with pulvinate leaflets. The flowers are often in drooping racemes.
They are found in eastern Asia, from the Himalayas to Japan, with the exception of the genera Lardizabala and Boquila, both native to southern South America (Chile, and Boquila also in adjacent western Argentina).
- Selected genera
- Akebia Decne.
- Archakebia C.Y.Wu , T.C.Chen & H.N.Qin (included in Holboellia by some authors)
- Boquila Decne.
- Decaisnea Hook.f. & Thomson
- Holboellia Wall.
- Lardizabala Ruiz & Pav.
- Sargentodoxa Rehder & E.H.Wilson (sometimes placed in its own family Sargentodoxaceae)
- Sinofranchetia (Diels) Hemsl.
- Stauntonia DC.
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- Lardizabalaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.
- Lardizabalaceae in the Flora of North America
- Lardizabalaceae in the Flora of China
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL
