Cardiopteridaceae
A eudicot family of tropical trees, shrubs, and woody vines.
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Cardiopteridaceae is a eudicot family of flowering plants comprising about 43 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines, mostly tropical but with some temperate representatives. It contains six genera, the largest being Citronella with 21 species. The family is placed in the order Aquifoliales under the APG III classification.
Scientific classification
- CladeTracheophytes
- CladeAngiosperms
- CladeEudicots
- CladeAsterids
- OrderAquifoliales
- FamilyCardiopteridaceae
Named by Blume
Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Cardiopteridaceae (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Quick Facts
- Number of species
- about 43
- Number of genera
- 6
- Largest genus
- Citronella (21 species)
- Order
- Aquifoliales
- Sister family
- Stemonuraceae
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The family name
Carl Ludwig Blume established the family Cardiopteridaceae in 1847 by describing Cardiopteris moluccana. He based it on the name Cardiopteris, which John Royle and Nathaniel Wallich had used but never validly published. Justus Hasskarl had already named a related plant Peripterygium quinqueloba in 1843. A lengthy nomenclatural fight over the basionym Cardiopteris continued into the 1900s, until the ICBN formally conserved Cardiopteris over Peripterygium.
Circumscription
Before 2001, Cardiopteridaceae consisted only of Cardiopteris, as treated by Hermann Sleumer in 1942 and John Hutchinson in 1973. In 2001, Icacinaceae was shown to be polyphyletic and was divided into five segregate families, including Cardiopteridaceae. Kårehed transferred Citronella, Gonocaryum, and Leptaulus from Icacinaceae to Cardiopteridaceae, and provisionally placed Metteniusa, Dendrobangia, and Pseudobotrys there.
A 2007 molecular study placed Metteniusa in the lamiids, while Aquifoliales belongs to campanulids. Pseudobotrys remains doubtful in Cardiopteridaceae, and 2009 DNA sequences suggest Dendrobangia is closer to Apodytes. Some authors continue to place Cardiopteris alone in the family, putting the other five genera in Leptaulaceae, whose monophyly has not been tested by DNA analysis.
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Sources
Compiled from Wikipedia and the sources listed below. Text from Wikipedia is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is adapted from it.
- Wikipedia: Cardiopteridaceae (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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