Peraceae

Peraceae Klotzsch[1] is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales. The family was recognized in only a few systems of plant taxonomy, and is not recognized in the most widely accepted modern system, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III. The family was segregated from the Euhporbiaceae by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch in 1859, and its uniqueness was affirmed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Euphorbiaceae expert, Airy Shaw. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group APG III system considers that the recognition of the family may be necessary for a monophyletic Euphorbiaceae, but also that a formal recognition awaited additional molecular and morphological studies of the family.[2]

Fruits of Pera glabrata

The family includes five genera: Chaetocarpus, Clutia, Pera, Pogonophora and Trigonopleura, based on molecular and morphological characteristics.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
  2. ↑ Secco, Ricardo de S.; Inês Cordeiro, Luci de Senna-Vale, Margareth F. de Sales, Letícia Ribes de Lima, Débora Medeiros, Bárbara de Sá Haiad, Arline Souza de Oliveira, Maria Beatriz Rossi Caruzo, Daniela Carneiro-Torres & Narcisio C. Bigio (2012). "An overview of recent taxonomic studies on Euphorbiaceae s.l. in Brazil". Rodriguésia 63 (1): 227–242.
  3. ↑ Annals of Botany, doi:10.1093/aob/mct056, Advances in the floral structural characterization of the major subclades of Malpighiales, one of the largest orders of flowering plants, Peter K. Endress, Charles C. Davis and Merran L. Matthews
  4. ↑ Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards. The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Version: 19 December 2012. http://delta-intkey.com
  5. ↑ Wurdack & Davis, Malpighiales phylogenetics: gaining ground on one of the most recalcitrant clades in the angiosperm tree of life. American Journal of Botany, 96(8):1551-1570. 2009.


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