Staphyleaceae is a small 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 order
Crossosomatales
The Crossosomatales are an order, first recognized as such by APG II. They are flowering plants included within the Rosid eudicots.
Description
Species assigned to the Crossosomatales have in common flowers that are positioned solitarily, with ...
, native to Europe, temperate and tropical Asia and the
America
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s. The largest genus ''Staphylea'', which gives the family its name, contains the "bladdernut" trees. The family includes three genera with more than 40 known species.
Genera
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* '' Dalrympelea'' Roxb.
* '' Staphylea'' L. (includes ''Euscaphis'')
* ''Turpinia
''Turpinia'' is a genus of trees and shrubs in family Staphyleaceae, native to Asia and North, Central, and South America. Species include:
* '' Turpinia affinis''
* '' Turpinia arguta''
* '' Turpinia cochinchinensis''
* '' Turpinia formosana''
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'' Vent.
Excluded genera
These two genera, formerly placed here, are now included in the Tapisciaceae
Tapisciaceae is a family of flowering plants. Until recently it had been abandoned by taxonomists, and it was not recognised in the APG II system of 2003. In the APG III system, however, it has been reinstated to encompass the two genera '' Tapis ...
(Huerteales
Huerteales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants.Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). "Huerteales". In: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. In: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (see ''External links'' below) It is one of the 17 orders t ...
) as of the 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 Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a fur ...
(2009).
*''Huertea
''Huertea'' is a genus of plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all ...
''
*'' Tapiscia''
References
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Rosid families