Aphloiaceae

Taxobox
name = Aphloia
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Crossosomatales
familia = Aphloiaceae
genus = "Aphloia"
genus_authority = Benn. 1840
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Aphloia theiformis" (Vahl) Benn.

Aphloiaceae Takht. 1985, is a monogeneric family of flowering plants. It contains only one species "Aphloia theiformis" (Vahl) Benn., a species of evergreen shrubs or small trees occurring in East Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands and the Seychelles.

The genus "Aphloia" was described by Bennett in 1840 and included in Flacourtiaceae, where most classifications continued to include it until Takhtajan recognized its misplacement and created the new family Aphloiaceae in Violales to accommodate it. In 2003 the AGP II included Aphloiaceae in the Rosids without specifying an order. Matthews & Endress (2005) and Stevens (2006) include the family in an enlarged order Crossosomatales.

References

*cite journal|author = Walter S. Judd and Richard G. Olmstead|year = 2004|title = A survey of tricolpate (eudicot) phylogenetic relationships|journal = American Journal of Botany| volume = 91|pages = 1627–1644|doi = 10.3732/ajb.91.10.1627 ( [http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/91/10/1627 full text] )
*Matthews, M. L. and P. K. Endress. 2005. Comparative floral structure and systematics in Crossosomatales (Crossosomataceae, Stachyuraceae, Staphyleaceae, Aphloiaceae, Geissolomataceae, Ixerbaceae, Strasburgeriaceae). "Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society" 147: 1-46 ( [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00347.x abstract] ).
* [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/crossosomatalesweb.htm#Aphloiaceae Aphloiaceae] in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html Angiosperm Phylogeny Website] . Version 7, May 2006.
* [http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=980 "Aphloia"] in Flora of Zimbabwe (includes photo)