Columelliaceae

Columelliaceae
Desfontainia spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Bruniales
Family:	Columelliaceae D.Don
Genera
Columellia Desfontainia

Columelliaceae is a family of trees and shrubs native to the Andes of South America.^[1]

In the APG II taxonomy they are placed in the order Lamiales,^[2] but a 2008 study suggested that they are sister to the Bruniaceae,^[3] and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website proposes incorporating this finding by placing both families in order Bruniales.^[1] The APG III system of 2009 thus does place Columelliaceae in the Bruniales.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/asteralesweb.htm#Columelliaceae
2. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 399–436. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x. 
3. ^ Winkworth, Richard C.; Lundberg, Johannes; Donoghue, Michael J. (2008). "Toward a resolution of Campanulid phylogeny, with special reference to the placement of Dipsacales". Taxon 57 (1): 53–65.