Basellaceae

Taxobox
name = Basellaceae

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image_width = 230px
image_caption = from Blanco (c. 1880)
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Basellaceae
familia_authority = Raf. (1837)
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = see text

Basellaceae is a family of flowering plants, in the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots, according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The family comprises some two dozen species of herbaceous plants, some with climbing habits, in four genera:

* "Anredera"
* "Basella"
* "Boussingaultia"
* "Ullucus"

Members of economic importance include the ulluco and the Malabar spinach.

External links

* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/basellac.htm Basellaceae] 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.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/basell.htm photographs]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_ID=1&taxon_ID=10096 Basellaceae in the "Flora of North America"]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&ID=3587&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.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Basellaceae links at CSDL]
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