Asteropeiaceae

Taxobox
name = Asteropeiaceae
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Asteropeiaceae
familia_authority = Takht. ex Reveal & Hoogland (1990)
subdivision_ranks = genera
subdivision = see text

Asteropeiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by very few taxonomists.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998) does recognize such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family exists of a single genus only: "Asteropeia", found in Madagascar.According to the [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html AP-Website] it forms a clade together with the family Physenaceae (also of Madagascar).

External links

* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/asterope.htm Asteropeiaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards).
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ The families of flowering plants] descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 30st May 2006.
* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Asteropeiaceae links at CSDL]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=112848&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
* [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Madagasc/astero.html photographs of "Asteropeia" (Missouri Botanic Garden)]