Burmanniaceae

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Burmanniaceae

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Burmanniaceae
Blume
     Range of Burmanniaceae
     Range of Burmanniaceae
Genera
  • Apteria
  • Burmannia
  • Campylosiphon
  • Cymbocarpa
  • Dictyostega
  • Gymnosiphon
  • Hexapterella
  • Marthella
  • Miersiella

(See also Thismiaceae)

Burmanniaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants, consisting of about a hundred species of herbaceous plants in roughly a dozen genera. Often they are quite remarkable plants, more often red than green, without much leaf area and not growing very big in any way.

The APG II system, of 2003, places the family in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots. The circumscription of the family in APG II is wider than in the APG system, of 1998, and includes the plants that belonged to the family Thismiaceae in APG.

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