Myrothamnus

Myrothamnus
M. flabellifolia, from Vegetation der Erde (1915)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Gunnerales
Family:	Myrothamnaceae
Genus:	Myrothamnus Welw.
species
Myrothamnus flabellifolius Myrothamnus moschata

Myrothamnus is the botanical name of a genus of flowering plants, consisting of two species of small xerophytic shrubs, in the southern parts of tropical Africa and in Madagascar.

Myrothamnaceae was included in order Hamamelidales in the Cronquist system^[1]. Molecular systematic studies have suggested that Myrothamnus is not closely related to Hamamelidaceae nor any other family included in that order, but rather is closely related to Gunnera. In the APG II system (2003,) the genus is assigned to family Gunneraceae or to the optionally recognized segregate family Myrothamnaceae^[2]. In APG III (2009,) the narrower circumscription is preferred, and these two families are considered distinct^[3].

Species

• Myrothamnus flabellifolius
• Myrothamnus moschata

References

1. ^ Cronquist, Arthur (1981). An integrated system of classification of flowering plants. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231038801, 9780231038805. http://books.google.com/books?id=EB6qflbmcrwC. 
2. ^ THE ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENY GROUP (April, 2003). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (4): 399–436. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x/abstract. 
3. ^ THE ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENY GROUP (October 29, 2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract. 

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser