Saururaceae is a plant family comprising four genera and seven species of

herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition of t ...

flowering plants native to eastern and southern Asia and

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. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is sometimes known as the "lizard's-tail family". The APG IV system (2016; unchanged from the 2009

APG III system The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a fur ...

, the 2003 APG II system and the 1998 APG system) assigned it to the order Piperales in the clade magnoliids.

Species

*'' Anemopsis californica'' (Nutt.) Hook. & Arn. (yerba mansa). – North America. *''

Gymnotheca chinensis Saururaceae is a plant family comprising four genera and seven species of herbaceous flowering plants native to eastern and southern Asia and North America. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is sometimes known as the "lizard ...

'' Decne. – Asia. *''Gymnotheca involucrata'' S. J. Pei. – Asia. *''Houttuynia cordata'' Thunberg. – Asia. *''Houttuynia emeiensis'' Z.Y.Zhu & S.L.Zhang - Asia. *''Saururus cernuus'' L. (lizard's tail, water-dragon)– North America. *''Saururus chinensis'' (Loureiro) Baillon. – Asia. *†''Saururus tuckerae'' - Middle Eocene *†''Saururus aquilae'' - Late Cretaceous (Campanian) *†''Saururus stoobensis'' - Miocene

References

External links

Saururaceae
in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards)
''The families of flowering plants''

links at CSDL, Texas
Saururaceae, Magnoliid families {{Piperales-stub