Phytolaccaceae

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Phytolaccaceae
Phytolacca americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Phytolaccaceae
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Phytolaccaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been almost universally recognized by taxonomists, although its circumscription has varied. It is also known as the Pokeweed family.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family comprises about a 18 genera, totalling a hundred species.

[edit] Genera

  • Agdestis
  • Anisomeria
  • Ercilla
  • Gallesia
  • Gisekia
  • Gyrostemon
  • Hilleria
  • Ledenbergia
  • Microtea
  • Monococcus
  • Nowickea
  • Petiveria
  • Phytolacca, Pokeweeds.
  • Rivina
  • Schindleria
  • Seguieria
  • Stegnosperma, now in family Stegnospermataceae.
  • Trichostigma
  • Villamillia

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