Flacourtiaceae

Flacourtiaceae was a flowering plant family in the Cronquist system and several others of plant classification. It is often complained that Arthur Cronquist had a habit of dumping all the left-over members of an order, the "scraps" that did not clearly fit into any one family in that order with closely related genera, into a single catch-all family, or "garbage pail" family.Fact|date=July 2007 Flacourtiaceae seems to be the family to fill this role for the order of Violales within Cronquist's system. The tropical, subtropical and temperate species have few defining common threads, and Flacourtiaceae is quite diverse for a family.

In Cronquist's classification, it included 89 genera and more than 800 living species. Of these, many, including the type genus "Flacourtia", have now been transferred to the Salicaceae in the molecular phylogeny-based classification established by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

;Genera formerly included in Flacourtiaceae (current family in brackets):

"Gerrardina" (now considered as a genus of its own family Gerrardinaceae) [Alford, M. H. (2006).Gerrardinaceae: a new family of African flowering plants unresolved among Brassicales, Huerteales, Malvales, and Sapindales. "Taxon" 55(4):959–964]

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