Calceolariaceae

Taxobox

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image_caption = "Calceolaria herbeohybrida"
image_width = 240px
name = Lamiales
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Calceolariaceae
subdivision_ranks = genera
subdivision =
*"Calceolaria"
*"Porodittia"
*"Jovellana"

Calceolariaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that has been recently segregated from Scrophulariaceae. The family includes three genera, "Calceolaria", "Porodittia", and "Jovellana". Recent molecular phylogenies that included "Calceolaria" have shown not only that this genus does not belong in Scrophulariaceae (or any of the numerous families recently segregated from Scrophulariaceae) but also that this genus is the sister clade to the majority of the other families of the Lamiales. Morphological and chemical characters also support the separation of Calceolariaceae from Scrophulariaceae and other Lamiales. Some recent studies have supported a sister-group relationship between Calceolariaceae and Gesneriaceae (Andersson 2006).

References and external links

*Andersson, S. 2006. On the phylogeny of the genus "Calceolaria" (Calceolariaceae) as inferred from ITS and plastid "matK" sequences. "Taxon" 55: 125-137 ( [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2006/00000055/00000001/art00015 abstract] ).
* [http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/abstract/88/2/348 Disintegration of the Scrophulariaceae]