Biology:Achariaceae
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Short description: Family of flowering plants
| Achariaceae | |
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| Pangium edule | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Achariaceae Harms[2] |
| Type genus | |
| Acharia | |
Achariaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of 32-33 genera with about 155 species[3] of tropical herbs, shrubs, and trees. The APG IV system has greatly expanded the scope of the family by including many genera previously classified in Flacourtiaceae.[4] Molecular data strongly support the inclusion of this family in the order Malpighiales.
The family is almost exclusively tropical and is best known as the source of chaulmoogra oil, formerly used to treat leprosy. Unlike other members of the former Flacourtiaceae now placed in the family Salicaceae, the genera of Achariaceae typically have cyanogenic glycosides.[citation needed]
Genera
Gynocardia odorata, an evergreen tree from South Asia
References
- ↑ "Malpighiales". https://mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/orders/malpighialesweb.htm.
- ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (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.
- ↑ Christenhusz, M. J. M.; Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1. http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598.
- ↑ Chase, Mark W.; Sue Zmarzty; M. Dolores Lledó; Kenneth J. Wurdack; Susan M. Swensen; Michael F. Fay (2002). "When in doubt, put it in Flacourtiaceae: a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on plastid rbcL DNA sequences". Kew Bulletin 57 (1): 141–181. doi:10.2307/4110825.
- ↑ Fiaschi, Pedro; Groppo, Milton (2008). "Kuhlmanniodendron Fiaschi & Groppo, a new eastern Brazilian genus of Achariaceae sensu lato segregated from Carpotroche Endl. (formerly included in Flacourtiaceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (1): 103–109. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00761.x.
- ↑ Hul, S. (1991). "Révision des Flacourtiaceae-Phyllobotryoneae d'Afrique". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 4e Ser., Section B, Adansonia 13 (3–4): 155–165.
Wikidata ☰ Q651518 entry
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