Burmanniaceae

Taxobox

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name = Burmanniaceae
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Dioscoreales
familia = Burmanniaceae
familia_authority = Blume
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = *"Apteria"
*"Burmannia"
*"Campylosiphon"
*"Cymbocarpa"
*"Dictyostega"
*"Gymnosiphon"
*"Hexapterella"
*"Marthella"
*"Miersiella" (See also Thismiaceae)
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range_map_caption = legend|red|Range of Burmanniaceae

Burmanniaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants, consisting of about a hundred species of herbaceous plants in roughly a dozen genera. Often they are quite remarkable plants, more often red than green, without much leaf area and not growing very big in any way.

The APG II system, of 2003, places the family in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots. The circumscription of the family in APG II is wider than in the APG system, of 1998, and includes the plants that belonged to the family Thismiaceae in APG.

External links

* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/burmanni.htm Burmanniaceae] , [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/thismiac.htm Thismiaceae] 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: 9th March 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1200&taxon_id=10133 "Monocot families" (USDA)]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10133 Burmanniaceae in the "Flora of North America"]
* [http://bio.kuleuven.be/sys/burmannia "Burmanniaceae.org, a site dedicated to the research on this family"]
* [http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~b_morpho/maas.html the specialists at work]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=48528&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Burmanniaceae links] and more [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Thismiaceae links] at CSDL, Texas