Phytolaccaceae

Taxobox
name = Phytolaccaceae


image_width = 230px
image_caption = "Phytolacca americana"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Phytolaccaceae
familia_authority = R.Br.
subdivision_ranks = genera
subdivision = see text

Phytolaccaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been almost universally recognized by taxonomists, although its circumscription has varied. It is also known as the Pokeweed family.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family comprises about a 18 genera, totalling a hundred species.

Genera

*"Agdestis"
*"Anisomeria"
*"Ercilla"
*"Gallesia"
*"Gisekia"
*"Gyrostemon"
*"Hilleria"
*"Ledenbergia"
*"Microtea"
*"Monococcus"
*"Nowickea"
*"Petiveria"
*"Phytolacca", Pokeweeds.
*"Rivina"
*"Schindleria"
*"Seguieria"
*"Stegnosperma", now in family Stegnospermataceae.
*"Trichostigma"
*"Villamillia"

External links

* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/phytolac.htm Phytolaccaceae] 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://delta-intkey.com
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10687 Phytolaccaeae in the "Flora of North America"]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=10687 Phytolaccaeae in the "Flora of China"]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=3525&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.botany.hawaii.edu/FACULTY/CARR/phytolacc.htm Pictures of representative species]