Morinoideae is a subfamily of plants in the

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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 ...

, order Dipsacales. 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'' : ''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 Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), ...

'' : ''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 {{Dipsacales-stub