Salicaceae

Salicaceae
Salix caprea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales[1]
Family:	Salicaceae Mirb.[2]
Tribes
Abatieae Bembicieae Flacourtieae Homalieae Prockieae Saliceae Samydeae Scolopieae[1]
Synonyms
Bembiciaceae Caseariaceae Flacourtiaceae Homaliaceae Poliothyrsidaceae Prockiaceae Samydaceae Scyphostegiaceae and see text

Salicaceae are a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 55 genera.^[3]

In the Cronquist system, the Salicaceae were treated in their own order Salicales, and contained only three genera (Salix, Populus and Chosenia), but APG includes it in Malpighiales. The additional genera were previously treated in Flacourtiaceae, but had a mixed history before that and have been treated in Bembiciaceae, Caseariaceae, Homaliaceae, Poliothyrsidaceae, Prockiaceae, Samydaceae, and Scyphostegiaceae. The Samydaceae (including Caseariaceae) appear rather distinct and might be a valid family however^{[citation needed]}.

Gerrardina is now considered the sole genus of a separate family, Gerrardinaceae.^[4]

Genera

Abatia Aphaerema Azara Banara Bartholomaea Bembicia Bennettiodendron Bivinia Byrsanthus Calantica Carrierea Casearia Chosenia Dissomeria Dovyalis

Euceraea Flacourtia Hasseltia Hasseltiopsis Hecatostemon Hemiscolopia Homalium Idesia Itoa Laetia Lasiochlamys Ludia Lunania Macrohasseltia Mocquerysia

Neopringlea Neoptychocarpus Neosprucea Olmediella Oncoba Ophiobotrys Osmelia Phyllobotryon Phylloclinium Pineda Pleuranthodendron Poliothyrsis Populus Priamosia Prockia

Pseudosalix†[5] Pseudoscolopia Pseudosmelia Ryania Salix Samyda Scolopia Scyphostegia Tetrathylacium Tisonia Trichostephanus Trimeria Xylosma Zuelania

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Family Salicaceae". Taxonomy. UniProt. http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/3688. Retrieved 2010-02-04. 
2. ^ "Salicaceae Mirb., nom. cons.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2003-01-17. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/family.pl?985. Retrieved 2010-02-04. 
3. ^ Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008 (and more or less continuously updated since).
4. ^ Alford, M. H. (2006). "Gerrardinaceae: a new family of African flowering plants unresolved among Brassicales, Huerteales, Malvales, and Sapindales". Taxon 55 (4): 959–964. doi:10.2307/25065689. JSTOR 25065689. 
5. ^ Boucher, L. D.; Manchester, S. R.; Judd, W. S. (2003). "An extinct genus of Salicaceae based on twigs with attached flowers, fruits, and foliage from the Eocene Green River Formation of Utah and Colorado, USA". American Journal of Botany 90: 1389. doi:10.3732/ajb.90.9.1389 

External links

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