Phyllanthaceae

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Phyllanthaceae
Breynia disticha
Breynia disticha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Genera

See Taxonomy of the Phyllanthaceae.

The Phyllanthaceae is a plant family (biology), previously known as subfamily Phyllanthoideae of the Euphorbiaceae.[1] The subfamily Phyllanthoideae was split up from the Euphorbiaceae as a result of lineage analysis. The family comprises 9 tribes, 56 genera and about 1725 species of trees, shrubs and herbs distributed in all tropical regions of the world.

[edit] Taxonomy

This family's circumscription is nearly coincident with that of ex-Phyllanthoideae, except for the tribe Drypeteae which has become family Putranjivaceae.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kathriarachchi H, Hoffmann P, Samuel R, Wurdack KJ, Chase MW (2005). "Molecular phylogenetics of Phyllanthaceae inferred from five genes (plastid atpB, matK, 3'ndhF, rbcL, and nuclear PHYC)". Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 36 (1): 112–34. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.12.002. PMID 15904861. 

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