Simmondsiaceae

Taxobox
name = Simmondsiaceae

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image_width = 230px
image_caption = habit
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Simmondsiaceae
familia_authority = Tiegh. (1899)
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = see textcommonscat

Simmondsiaceae 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 family Buxaceae.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recognize this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core 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 order Euphorbiales.

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]