Ecdeiocoleaceae

Ecdeiocoleaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Ecdeiocoleaceae
genera

Ecdeiocolea
Georgeantha

Ecdeiocoleaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has rarely been recognized by taxonomists.

The APG II system, in 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), does recognize such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. Two species in separate genera Ecdeiocolea and Georgeantha, both found in Southwest Australia, have been described to date. A third and hitherto undescribed species is being studied.[1]

References

  1. ^ Briggs, Barbara. "A new close relative of the grasses - the third species of Ecdeiocoleaceae". http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/science/Plant_Diversity_Research/Ecdeiocoleaceae. Retrieved 10 August 2010. 

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