Asteropeiaceae
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| Asteropeiaceae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Asteropeiaceae Takht. ex Reveal & Hoogland |
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Asteropeiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by very few taxonomists.
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998) does recognize such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family exists of a single genus only: Asteropeia, found in Madagascar. According to the AP-Website it forms a clade together with the family Physenaceae (also of Madagascar).
[edit] External links
- Asteropeiaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards).
- The families of flowering plants descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 30 May 2006.
- links at CSDL
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- photographs of Asteropeia (Missouri Botanic Garden)
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