Berberidaceae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Berberidaceae
Subfamilia: Berberidoideae – Nandinoideae – Podophylloideae
Genera: Achlys – Berberis – Bongardia – Caulophyllum – Diphylleia – Dysosma – Epimedium – Gymnospermium – Jeffersonia – Leontice – Mahonia – Nandina – Plagiorhegma – Podophyllum – Ranzania – Vancouveria

Name

Berberidaceae Juss. (1789)

Type genus: Berberis L.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Epimediaceae Menge, Cat. Pl. Grudent. Gedan. 122. 1839.
Type genus: Epimedium L.
Leonticaceae Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 18: 263. 1965.
Type genus: Leontice L.
Nandinaceae Horan., Prim. Lin. Syst. Nat. 90. 1834.
Type genus: Nandina Thunb.
Podophyllaceae DC., Syst. Nat. 1: 126. 1817.
Type genus: Podophyllum L.
Ranzaniaceae Takht., Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 79(1): 96. 1994.
Type genus: Ranzania T.Itô

References

Jussieu, A.L. de 1789. Genera Plantarum 286.
Hassler, M. 2019. Berberidaceae. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Apr. 23. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Berberidaceae. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 23 2019.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Berberidaceae in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Jan. 26. Reference page.
Wang, W., Lu, A.M., Ren, Y., Endress, M.E. & Chen, Z.D. 2009. Phylogeny and classification of Ranunculales: Evidence from four molecular loci and morphological data. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 11: 81–110. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2009.01.001 ResearchGate Reference page.

Vernacular names
العربية: برباريسية
asturianu: Berberidacees
azərbaycanca: Zirinckimilər
беларуская: Барбарысавыя
български: Киселотрънови
català: Berberidàcies
čeština: Dřišťálovité
dansk: Berberis-familien
Deutsch: Berberitzengewächse
English: Barberry family
Esperanto: Berberisacoj
español: Berberidáceas
eesti: Kukerpuulised
فارسی: زرشکیان
suomi: Happomarjakasvit
français: Berbéridacées
עברית: ערטניתיים
hrvatski: Žutikovke
hornjoserbsce: Kisycowe rostliny
magyar: Borbolyafélék
հայերեն: Կծոխուրազգիներ, Ծորենազգիներ
日本語: メギ科
ქართული: კოწახურისებრნი
қазақша: Бөріқарақат тұқымдасы
한국어: 매자나무과
kurdî: Famîleya zerîşkan
lietuvių: Raugerškiniai
latviešu: Bārbeļu dzimta
македонски: Жолтики
മലയാളം: ബെർബെറിഡേസീ
नेपाली: चुत्रो
Nederlands: Berberisfamilie
norsk nynorsk: Berberisfamilien
norsk: Berberisfamilien
polski: Berberysowate
پنجابی: بربری ٹبر
română: Berberidacee
русский: Барбарисовые
slovenčina: dráčovité
svenska: Berberisväxter
తెలుగు: బెర్బెరిడేసి
Türkçe: Kadıntuzluğugiller
українська: Барбарисові
oʻzbekcha/ўзбекча: Zirkdoshlar
Tiếng Việt: Họ Hoàng mộc
中文（简体）: 小檗科
中文（繁體）: 小蘗科

The Berberidaceae are a family of 18 genera of flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order Ranunculales. The family contains about 700 known species,[1] of which the majority are in Berberis. The species include trees, shrubs and perennial herbaceous plants.
 
Genera 
 
 

	Alloberberis C. C. Yu & K. F. Chung     Berberis L. — barberry     Mahonia Nutt. — Oregon grape (eastern Asia, the Himalaya, North and Central America)     Moranothamnus       Ranzania T. Itô (Japan)         Nandina Thunb. — heavenly bamboo (eastern Asia from the Himalaya to Japan)       Caulophyllum Michx. — blue cohosh     Gymnospermium Spach
	Bongardia C. A. Mey.       Achlys DC. — vanilla-leaf       Diphylleia Michx. (southern Appalachian mountains, northern Japan, and China)       Dysosma (China)     Podophyllum L. — mayapple (eastern North America)     Sinopodophyllum (Afghanistan, Bhutan, northern India, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, and western China)               Epimedium L.     Vancouveria Morren & Decne. — inside-out flower (western U.S.)           Jeffersonia W. Bartram — twinleaf     Plagiorhegma Maxim.
	Leontice L. (Middle East to Central and Western Asia)

 

The APG IV system of 2016 recognises the family and places it in the order Ranunculales in the clade eudicots.[2]

In some older treatments of the family, Berberidaceae only included four genera (Berberis, Epimedium, Mahonia, Vancouveria), with the other genera treated in separate families, Leonticaceae (Bongardia, Caulophyllum, Gymnospermium, Leontice), Nandinaceae (Nandina), and Podophyllaceae (Achlys, Diphylleia, Dysosma, Jeffersonia, Podophyllum, Ranzania, Sinopodophyllum).

Mahonia is very closely related to Berberis, and included in it by many botanists. However, recent DNA-based phylogenetic research has reinstated Mahonia, though with a handful of species transferred into the newly described genera Alloberberis (formerly Mahonia section Horridae) and Moranothamnus (formerly Mahonia claireae).[3] Species of Mahonia and Berberis can be hybridised, with the hybrids being classified in the genus × Mahoberberis.[4][5]

Diphyllaea is closely related to or perhaps embedded within Podophyllum. Instead of the current trend to subdivide Podophyllum into three genera (Podophyllum, plus Dysosma and Sinopodophyllum), inclusion of Diphyllaea in a larger Podophyllum is equally warranted.

References

CHRISTENHUSZ, MAARTEN J.M.; BYNG, JAMES W. (2016-05-20). "

The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase
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The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016-05-01). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385. ISSN 1095-8339.
Yu, Chih-Chieh; Chung, Kuo-Fang (2017-12-22). "Why Mahonia? Molecular recircumscription of Berberis s.l., with the description of two new genera, Alloberberis and Moranothamnus". Taxon. 66 (6): 1371–1392. doi:10.12705/666.6.
"Plants Profile for Mahoberberis". USDA PLANTS. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
"Puccinia graminis (stem rust of cereals)". Invasive Species Compendium. Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2020-11-17.