Morinoideae is a subfamily of plants in the
family
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Caprifoliaceae
The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade of dicotyledonous flowering plants consisting of about 860 species, in 33, to 42 genera, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. Centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and ea ...
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Dipsacales
The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons. In the APG III system of 2009, the order includes only two families, Adoxaceae and a broadly defined Caprifoliaceae. Some well-known members of t ...
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[ It was at one time recognized as the separate family Morinaceae. The genus ''Morina'' has also been included in a separate family Dipsacaceae, currently included in Caprifoliaceae. Three genera have been included in this subfamily:
* '']Acanthocalyx
''Acanthocalyx'' is a genus of about three species of plants in the family Caprifoliaceae, sometimes included in Morinaceae
Morinoideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Caprifoliaceae, order Dipsacales. It was at one time recognized as t ...
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: ''A. alba, A. albus, A. delavayi, A. nepalensis.''
* ''Cryptothladia''
: ''C. chinensis, C. chlorantha, C. kokonorica, C. polyphylla''
* ''Morina
''Morina'' is a genus of the angiosperm family Caprifoliaceae. It is unofficially the provincial flower of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
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: ''M. couteriana, M. longifolia, M. persica''
: '' M. longifolia'' has the common names "whorl flower" and "Persian steppe flower." This species has cultivars: ''M. delavaya'' and ''M. wallichii''.
References
*Cannon MJ, Cannon JFM. 1984. A revision of the Morinaceae (Magnoliophyta-Dipsacales). vol. 12. ''Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Bot.'', 35p.
*Bell, C. D. & M. J. Donoghue. 2003. Phylogeny of Morinaceae (Dipsacales) based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Organisms, Diversity, & Evolution 3:227-237.
Dipsacales
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