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 ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s native to eastern and southern

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an ...

and North America. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is sometimes known as the "lizard's-tail family". The

APG IV system The APG IV system of flowering plant classification is the fourth version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy for flowering plants (angiosperms) being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). It was publish ...

(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 Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a fu ...

, the 2003

APG II system The APG II system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II system) of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Gr ...

and the 1998

APG system The APG system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system) of plant classification is the first version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy. Published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, it was replaced by the improved ...

) 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 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 ...

'' S. J. Pei. – Asia. *''

Houttuynia cordata ''Houttuynia cordata'', also known as fish mint, fish leaf, rainbow plant, chameleon plant, heart leaf, fish wort, or Chinese lizard tail, is one of two species in the genus '' Houttuynia'' (the other being ''H. emeiensis''). It is a flowe ...

'' 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 ''Saururus'' is a genus of plants in the family Saururaceae containing two species. ''Saururus cernuus'' is native to North America, and ''Saururus chinensis'' is native to Asia. Fossil record Several fossil seeds of †''Saururus bilobatus'' ha ...

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Late Cretaceous The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', ...

(

Campanian The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campani ...

) *†''

Saururus stoobensis ''Saururus'' is a genus of plants in the family Saururaceae containing two species. ''Saururus cernuus'' is native to North America, and ''Saururus chinensis'' is native to Asia. Fossil record Several fossil seeds of †''Saururus bilobatus'' ha ...

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Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" ...

References

External links

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

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