The Lophiocarpaceae are a family of flowering plants comprising mostly succulent subshrubs and herbaceous species native to tropical to southern sub-Saharan Africa to western India. It includes the genera Corbichonia and Lophiocarpus.[3] The family is newly recognized through research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III system to deal with long-standing phylogenetic difficulties in placing various genera within the Caryophyllales.[4]
| Lophiocarpaceae | |
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| Corbichonia decumbens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Lophiocarpaceae Doweld & Reveal[1][2] |
| Genera | |
References
edit- ^ Stevens, P. F. "Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, version 12". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- ^ Endress, Peter K.; Merran L. Matthews (2012). "Progress and problems in the assessment of flower morphology in higher-level systematics" (PDF). Plant Systematics and Evolution. 298 (2): 257–276. doi:10.1007/s00606-011-0576-2.
- ^ An up-to-date familial and suprafamilial classification of succulent plants R Nyffeler, U Eggli - Bradleya, Winterthurerst, 2010 - systbot.uzh.ch
- ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
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