Salicaceae

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Salicaceae
Salix caprea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Malpighiales Family: Salicaceae Mirb.
Genera
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Synonyms
Bembiciaceae Caseariaceae Flacourtiaceae Homaliaceae Poliothyrsidaceae Prockiaceae Samydaceae Scyphostegiaceae and see text

Salicaceae is a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 57 genera.

In the Cronquist system the Salicaceae was treated in its own order Salicales, and contained only three genera (Salix, Populus and Chosenia), but APG includes it in the Malpighiales. The additional genera were previously treated in the Flacourtiaceae, but had a mixed history before that and have been treated in Bembiciaceae, Caseariaceae, Homaliaceae, Poliothyrsidaceae, Prockiaceae, Samydaceae, and Scyphostegiaceae. The Samydaceae (including Caseariaceae) appear rather distinct and might be a valid family however^{[citation needed]}.

Genera

Abatia Aphaerema Azara Banara Bartholomaea Bembicia Bennettiodendron Bivinia Byrsanthus Calantica Carrierea Casearia Chosenia Dissomeria Dovyalis Euceraea Flacourtia Hasseltia

Hasseltiopsis Hecatostemon Hemiscolopia Homalium Idesia Itoa Laetia Lasiochlamys Ludia Lunania Macrohasseltia Mocquerysia Neopringlea Neoptychocarpus Olmediella Oncoba Ophiobotrys Osmelia Phyllobotryon

Phylloclinium Pineda Pleuranthodendron Poliothyrsis Populus - poplar Priamosia Prockia Pseudoscolopia Pseudosmelia Ryania Salix - willow Samyda Scolopia Scyphostegia Tetrathylacium Tisonia Trimeria Xylosma Zuelania

Gerrardina (now considered as a genus of its own family Gerrardinaceae) ^[1]

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