Centrolepidaceae

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Centrolepidaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Centrolepidaceae
Endl.
Genera

Aphelia
Centrolepis
Gaimardia

Centrolepidaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognises such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots.

The family is now regarded as containing three genera, Aphelia, Centrolepis, and Gaimardia,[1] with about 35 species total, found in Australia, New Zealand, southern South America and Southeast Asia.

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  1. ^ Cooke, D.A. (1998) Centrolepidaceae. In Kubitzki, K. (ed) Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 106-109. (Springer Verlag: Berlin).

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