Quiinaceae Engl. is a

neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

family of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the

Malpighiales The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 36 families and more than species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsett ...

, consisting of about 50 species in 4 genera (''

Froesia ''Froesia'' is a genus of plants in family Ochnaceae. Some authors have placed it in the Quiinaceae. It is known from Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela.

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Lacunaria ''Lacunaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ochnaceae native to Central America and tropical South America. Species , Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Bo ...

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Quiina ''Quiina'' is a genus of plant in family Ochnaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): * '' Quiina amazonica'' A.C.Sm. * '' Quiina berryi'' J.V.Schneid. & Zizka * '' Quiina blackii'' Pires * '' Quiina brevens ...

'', '' Touroulia''). The APG III system of flowering plant classification does not recognize such a family, instead including these genera in the

Ochnaceae Ochnaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales.Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alastair Culham. ''Flowering Plant Families of the World''. Firefly Books: Ontario, Canada. (2007). . In the APG III syst ...

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L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/ Malpighiales families Historically recognized angiosperm families {{Malpighiales-stub