Nyssaceae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Ordo: Cornales

Familia: Nyssaceae
Genera: Camptotheca – Davidia – Diplopanax – Mastixia – Nyssa
Paleogenera: †Amersinia

Name

Nyssaceae Juss. ex Dumort. Anal. Fam. Pl. 13. (1829) nom. cons.

Type genus: Nyssa Sp. Pl. 2: 1058. (1753)

References

Jussieu, A.L. de 1829. Analyse des Familles de Plantes 13.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. 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 Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Nyssaceae. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 15 2016.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 蓝果树科

Nyssaceae is a family of flowering trees sometimes included in the dogwood family (Cornaceae).[1] Nyssaceae is composed of 37 known species in the following five genera:[2][3][4]

Camptotheca, the happy trees: two species in China
Davidia, the dove tree, handkerchief tree, or ghost tree: one species in central China
Diplopanax: two species in southern China and Vietnam
Mastixia: about nineteen species in Southeast Asia
Nyssa, the tupelos: about 7–10 species in eastern North America and East to Southeast Asia

Among the extinct genera of the family are Mastixicarpum, very similar to Diplopanax, and Tsukada, an extinct relative of Davidia.

In some treatments, Davidia is split off into its own family, the Davidiaceae. Diplopanax and Mastixia are also sometimes separated into the family Mastixiaceae.[4] The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group APG III system included the genera of Nyssaceae within Cornaceae.[1] The APG IV system recognizes Nyssaceae as a distinct family[5]
References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x.
Christenhusz, M. J. M.; Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
Averyanov, L. V. & Hiep, N. T. (2002). Diplopanax vietnamensis, a New Species of Nyssaceae from Vietnam – One More Living Representative of the Tertiary Flora of Eurasia. Novon 12: 433–436. Available online (pdf)
Fan, C. Z., and Xiang, Q. Y. (2003). Phylogenetic analyses of Cornales based on 26S rRNA and combined 26S rDNA-matK-rbcL sequence data. American Journal of Botany 90, 1357–1372.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "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 0024-4074.