Sparrmanniaceae

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Grewioideae
Crossberry, Grewia occidentalis
Crossberry, Grewia occidentalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malvales
Family: Sparrmanniaceae
Genera
  • Ancistrocarpus
  • Apeiba
  • Clappertonia
  • Colona
  • Corchorus
  • Desplatsia
  • Duboscia
  • Eleutherostylis
  • Entelea
  • Erinocarpus
  • Glyphaea
  • Goethalsia
  • Grewia
  • Heliocarpus
  • Hydrogaster
  • Luehea
  • Lueheopsis
  • Microcos
  • Mollia
  • Pseudocorchorus
  • Sparrmannia
  • Tetralix
  • Trichospermum
  • Triumfetta
  • Vasivaea
  • Vinticena

Sparrmanniaceae is a segregate plant family, containing plants which have more commonly been classified in Malvaceae or Tiliaceae. In the most recent proposed circumscription, that of Cheek ex Heywood et al [1], it corresponds to subfamily Grewioideae of the APG family Malvaceae [2].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Heywood et al, Flowering Plant Families of the World (2007)
  2. ^ Kubitzki & Bayer, Families and Genera of Vascular Plants V (2005)
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