Triuridaceae

Taxobox
name = Triuridaceae
regnum =Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Pandanales
familia = Triuridaceae
familia_authority = Gardner
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text

Triuridaceae is a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.

The APG II system, of 2003, does recognize such a family and places it in the order Pandanales, in the clade monocots. This is a change from the APG system, of 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but did place it in the clade monocots.

Most sources assume the family to consist of some half dozen genera, with "Sciaphila" as the biggest genus. However, H. Maas-van de Kamer and T. Weustenfeld (1998) regarded the family to consist of the following nine genera :
*"Andruris" Schltr.
*"Hyalisma" Champ.
*"Lacandonia" E.Martínez & Ramos
*"Peltophyllum" Gardner (syn. "Hexuris" Miers)
*"Sciaphila" Blume (syn. "Hyalisma" Champion)
*"Seychellaria" Hemsl.
*"Soridium" Miers
*"Triuridopsis" H.Maas & Maas
*"Triuris" Miers

The genus "Kupea" was described (and placed in Triuridaceae) in 2003.

References

* Maas-van de Kamer, H. & T. Weustenfeld (1998) in Kubitzki, K. (Editor): "The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants", Vol. 3. Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Germany. ISBN 3-540-64060-6

External links

:* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/triurida.htm Triuridaceae] 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://delta-intkey.com :* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1200&taxon_id=10917 "Monocot families" (USDA)] :* [http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~b_morpho/maas.html The specialists at work] :* [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/images/sciaphila.html photograph of "Sciaphila"] :* [http://www.hkherbarium.net/Herbarium/html%20text/96Sciaphila%20ramosa.htm photographs of "Sciaphila ramosa"] :* [http://www.hkherbarium.net/Herbarium/html%20text/95Sciaphila%20megastyla.htm photographs of "Sciaphila megastyla"] :* [http://taxa.soken.ac.jp/MakinoDB/makino/DCP0004/html_j/125.html type of "Sciaphila tosaensis"] :* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=232376&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser] :* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Triuridaceae links at CSDL, Texas]