- Simmondsiaceae
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image_caption = habit
regnum =Plant ae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis =Magnoliopsida
ordo =Caryophyllales
familia = Simmondsiaceae
familia_authority =Tiegh. (1899)
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = see textcommonscatSimmondsiaceae or the Jojoba Family is a family of flowering plants. The family is not recognized by all taxonomic systems, the single species, "
Simmondsia chinensis ", often being treated as belonging to familyBuxaceae .The
APG II system , of 2003 (unchanged from theAPG system , of 1998), does recognize this family and assigns it to the orderCaryophyllales in the cladecore eudicots . It consist of a single species only,jojoba ("Simmondsia chinensis"), of North American shrubs.The
Cronquist system , 1981, had also recognized this family and placed it in orderEuphorbiales .External links
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/simmonds.htm Simmondsiaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards).
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ The families of flowering plants] : descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval."
* [http://www.life.umd.edu/emeritus/reveal/pbio/pb450/rosi17.html Euphorbiales] : an overview of the history
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=3997&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
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