Lardizabalaceae

Taxobox
name = Lardizabalaceae

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Akebia quinata"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ranunculales
familia = Lardizabalaceae
familia_authority = R.Br.
subdivision_ranks = genera
subdivision = See text

Lardizabalaceae is a family of flowering plants.

The family has been universally recognized by taxonomists, including the APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998), which places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots.

The family consist of 8-9 genera with 30-50 species of woody plants. All are lianas, save "Decaisnea", which are pachycaul shrubs. The leaves are alternate, and compound (usually palmate), with pulvinate leaflets. The flowers are often in drooping racemes.

They are found in eastern Asia, from the Himalayas to Japan, with the exception of the genera "Lardizabala" and "Boquila", both native to southern South America (Chile, and "Boquila" also in adjacent western Argentina).

;Selected genera
*"Akebia" Decne.
*"Archakebia" C.Y.Wu , T.C.Chen & H.N.Qin (included in "Holboellia" by some authors)
*"Boquila" Decne.
*"Decaisnea" Hook.f. & Thomson
*"Holboellia" Wall.
*"Lardizabala" Ruiz & Pav.
*"Sargentodoxa" Rehder & E.H.Wilson (sometimes placed in its own family Sargentodoxaceae)
*"Sinofranchetia" (Diels) Hemsl.
*"Stauntonia" DC.

External links

* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/lardizab.htm Lardizabalaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ "The families of flowering plants"] .
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10477 Lardizabalaceae in the "Flora of North America"]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=10477 Lardizabalaceae in the "Flora of China"]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=22788&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Lardizabalaceae links at CSDL]