Classification System: APG IV
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales
Familia: Phyllanthaceae
Subfamilia: Antidesmatoideae – Phyllanthoideae
Tribus: Antidesmateae – Bischofieae – Bridelieae – Jablonskieae – Phyllantheae – Poranthereae – Scepeae – Spondiantheae – Uapaceae – Wielandieae
Genera: Actephila – Amanoa – Andrachne – Antidesma – Apodiscus – Aporosa – Ashtonia – Astrocasia – Baccaurea – Bischofia – Breynia – Bridelia – Celianella – Chascotheca – Chonocentrum – Chorisandrachne – Cleistanthus – Croizatia – Dicoelia – Didymocistus – Discocarpus – Distichirhops – Flueggea – Glochidion – Gonatogyne – Heterosavia – Heywoodia – Hyeronima – Hymenocardia – Jablonskia – Keayodendron – Lachnostylis – Leptonema – Leptopus – Lingelsheimia – Maesobotrya – Margaritaria – Martretia – Meineckia – Nothobaccaurea – Notoleptopus – Oreoporanthera – Pentabrachion – Phyllanthopsis – Phyllanthus – Plagiocladus – Poranthera – Protomegabaria – Pseudolachnostylis – Pseudophyllanthus – Richeria – Sauropus – Savia – Securinega – Spondianthus – Synostemon – Tacarcuna – Thecacoris – Uapaca – Wielandia
Name
Phyllanthaceae Martynov, Tekhno-Bot. Slovar 369. (1820) nom. cons.
Type genus: Phyllanthus L., Sp. Pl. 2: 981. (1753)
References
Martinov, I.I. 1820. Техно-ботаническiй словарь, на латинскомъ и россiйскомъ языкахъ, составленный […]. [Techno-Botanical Dictionary, in Latin and Russian, compiled by [...]]. i-vi, 682 p. St.-Petersburg: v tipografii Imperatorskoj Rossijskoj Akademii [Nauk] (Russian) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.96260 Reference page.
Reveal, J.L. & Hoffmann, P. & Doweld, A.B. & Murdock, A.G. 2007. (1765) Proposal to conserve the name Phyllanthaceae. Taxon 56(1): 266. DOI: 10.2307/25065770 JSTOR Reference page.
Hoffmann, P., Kathriarachchi, H. & Wurdack, K.J. 2006. A phylogenetic classification of Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato). Kew Bulletin 61(1): 37–53. JSTOR ResearchGate Reference page.
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Vernacular names
中文: 叶下珠科
Phyllanthaceae is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales. It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae.[2]
The Phyllanthaceae are most numerous in the tropics, with many in the south temperate zone, and a few ranging as far north as the middle of the north temperate zone.[3]
Some species of Andrachne, Antidesma, Margaritaria, and Phyllanthus are in cultivation.[4] A few species of Antidesma, Baccaurea, Phyllanthus, and Uapaca bear edible fruit.[3]
Phyllanthaceae comprises about 2000 species.[5][6] Depending on the author, these are grouped into 54 to 60 genera. Some of the genera are poorly defined, and the number of genera in the family is likely to change as the classification is further refined. The genus Phyllanthus, one of the largest genera of flowering plants, with over 1200 species, has more than half of the species in the family.[7]
Some of the genera have recently been sunk into others, while other genera have recently been divided.[8][9] The largest genera and the approximate number of species in each are: Phyllanthus (1270), Cleistanthus (140), Antidesma (100), Aporosa (90), Uapaca (60), Baccaurea (50), and Bridelia (50).[10]
Since Phyllanthaceae was revised in 2006, one paper has removed Heterosavia from Savia.[11] Another has separated Notoleptopus from Leptopus, and segregated Pseudophyllanthus and Phyllanthopsis from Andrachne. Also, Oreoporanthera has been subsumed into Poranthera, while Zimmermannia and Zimmermanniopsis have been sunk into Meineckia.[12] The large genus Cleistanthus is known to be polyphyletic, but further studies will be needed before it can be revised.[5]
Description
The description here is from Hoffmann,[3][13] except for a few additions from Webster[14] and Hutchinson [15] where cited. Phyllanthaceae is an unusually diverse family for its moderate size. It can be recognized only by a combination of characters because there are a few exceptions to almost everything that is generally true of the family. It is most notable for having two ovules in each locule of the ovary, a trait that clearly distinguishes it from Euphorbiaceae.
The Phyllanthaceae are nearly all trees, shrubs, or herbs. A few are climbers, or succulents, and one species, Phyllanthus fluitans, is aquatic. Unlike many of the Euphorbiaceae, none has latex, and only a very few produce a resinous exudate. Any hairs, if present, are almost always simple. Rarely are they branched or scale-like. Thorns and other armament are rare.
Stipules are produced with each leaf, but in some, these fall before the leaf is fully mature. Leaves are present, except for a few species of Phyllanthus that have flattened, leaflike stems called cladodes that bear flowers along their edges. The leaves are compound in Bischofia, but otherwise simple and usually alternate. Rarely are they opposite, in fascicles, or in whorls around the stem. The leaf margin is almost always entire, rarely toothed. A petiole is nearly always present, often with a pulvinus at its base.
The inflorescences are usually in the axils of leaves, rarely below the leaves or at the ends of stems. In Uapaca, the flowers are in a pseudanthium, a tight bundle of flowers that resembles a single flower.
Except for four species of Aporosa, the flowers are unisexual, the plants being either monoecious or dioecious. The flowers are actinomorphic in form. Detailed illustrations have been published for some of these.[12]
The sepals are three to eight in number, usually free from each other. Petals may be absent or present. If present, there are usually four to six, and their color is yellow to green, or rarely, pink or maroon.
A nectary disk is often present. It may be in the form of a ring, or divided into segments. The stamens are three to ten in number, or rarely more, free or variously fused.
The ovary is superior. The number of locules in the ovary is highly variable, usually from two to five, but sometimes as many as fifteen. The placentation is apical, with a pair of ovules hanging by their funicles from the top of each locule.[15] Often, only one of the ovules will develop into a seed. A single, massive obturator may cover the micropyles of both ovules, or each ovule may have its own thin obturator. The megagametophyte is of the Polygonum type.[14] The style is usually 2-lobed or bifid, sometimes entire, or rarely multifid.
The fruit is a schizocarp, drupe, or berry. In some, the schizocarp breaks up explosively.
Taxonomy
History
The name "Phyllanthaceae" was first validly published by Ivan Ivanovich Martynov in 1820 in a Russian book entitled Tekhno-botanico Slovar. A proposal to conserve this name was published in 2007.[16]
Martynov's name was rarely used in the 180 years after he published it. During that time, the plants that are now in Phyllanthaceae were placed in the large and heterogeneous family Euphorbiaceae. The monophyly of Euphorbiaceae had long been held in doubt by some, but the first strong evidence of its polyphyly came in 1993 with the first maximum parsimony analysis of DNA sequences of the gene rbcL from a large number of seed plants.[17] Since the 1993 study, all subsequent phylogenetic analyses have shown that the old concept of Euphorbiaceae consisted of several lineages that did not together form a clade in the order Malpighiales. Euphorbiaceae is now defined as a much smaller family than it had been in the twentieth century.[18][19] Pandaceae, Phyllanthaceae, Picrodendraceae, Putranjivaceae, Peraceae, and Centroplacaceae have been removed from it.[10]
The obsolete, older concept of Euphorbiaceae, known as Euphorbiaceae sensu lato, is sometimes still used for continuity and convenience.[20] It was the subject of a book and two papers which stood as the standard works on Phyllanthaceae until that family was revised by Hoffmann and co-authors in 2006.[14][21][22]
Classification
Main article: List of Phyllanthaceae genera
Flueggea virosa
Baccaurea brevipes
Leaves of Phyllanthus (Breynia) disticha
Securinega suffruticosa
Richeria grandis
Cleistanthus collinus
Phyllanthus acidus plant with fruit
In the past, the genera Centroplacus, Paradrypetes, and Phyllanoa had been placed in Phyllanthaceae, but these are now excluded from the family. Centroplacus is now in the family Centroplacaceae.[10] Paradrypetes is in Rhizophoraceae.[2] Phyllanoa is known only from a single specimen. In 1996, this was examined and found to be a species of Rinorea (Violaceae).[23]
The family Phyllanthaceae is divided into two subfamilies: Antidesmatoideae and Phyllanthoideae. Antidesmatoideae is divided into six tribes and Phyllanthoideae is divided into four. The tribe Antidesmateae of Antidesmatoideae, and the tribes Bridelieae and Wielandieae of Phyllanthoideae are further divided into subtribes. The following classification table is from the 2006 revision of Phyllanthaceae.
Incertae sedis: Chonocentrum
Subfamily Antidesmatoideae 6 tribes
Tribe Bischofieae 1 genus
Bischofia
Tribe Uapaceae 1 genus
Uapaca
Tribe Spondiantheae 1 genus
Spondianthus
Tribe Scepeae 8 genera
Aporosa
Ashtonia
Baccaurea
Distichirhops
Maesobotrya
Nothobaccaurea
Protomegabaria
Richeria
Tribe Jablonskieae 2 genera
Jablonskia
Celianella
Tribe Antidesmateae 5 subtribes
Subtribe Hieronyminae 1 genus
Hieronyma
Subtribe Leptonematinae 1 genus
Leptonema
Subtribe Martretiinae 2 genera
Martretia
Apodiscus
Subtribe Hymenocardiinae 2 genera
Hymenocardia
Didymocistus
Subtribe Antidesmatinae 2 genera
Antidesma
Thecacoris
Subfamily Phyllanthoideae 4 tribes
Tribe Bridelieae 5 subtribes
Subtribe Securineginae 2 genera
Securinega
Lachnostylis
Subtribe Saviinae 5 genera
Savia
Croizatia
Discocarpus
Gonatogyne
Tacarcuna
Subtribe Pseudolachnostylidinae 4 genera
Pseudolachnostylis
Bridelia
Cleistanthus
Pentabrachion
Subtribe Keayodendrinae 1 genus
Keayodendron
Subtribe Amanoinae 1 genus
Amanoa
Tribe Phyllantheae 5 genera
Phyllanthus (including Breynia, Glochidion, Reverchonia, and Sauropus)
Flueggea
Lingelsheimia
Margaritaria
Plagiocladus
Tribe Wielandieae 2 subtribes
Subtribe Astrocasiinae 3 genera
Astrocasia
Chascotheca
Heywoodia
Subtribe Wielandiinae 3 genera
Wielandia
Chorisandrachne
Dicoelia
Tribe Poranthereae 8 genera
Poranthera
Actephila
Andrachne
Leptopus
Meineckia
Oreoporanthera
Zimmermannia
Zimmermanniopsis
Genera
The list of 54 genera below is from the 2006 revision of Phyllanthaceae by Petra Hoffmann and co-workers.[13] In their treatment, Blotia and Petalodiscus were sunk into Wielandia and Richeriella into Flueggea. Breynia, Glochidion, Reverchonia, and Sauropus were recommended to be subsumed into Phyllanthus, but many new species combinations must be published to effect this change. Genera previously considered as the tribe Drypeteae are now placed in the separate family Putranjivaceae.
Actephila
Amanoa
Andrachne
Antidesma
Apodiscus
Aporosa
Ashtonia
Astrocasia
Baccaurea
Bischofia
Bridelia
Celianella
Chascotheca
Chonocentrum
Chorisandrachne
Cleistanthus
Croizatia
Dicoelia
Didymocistus
Discocarpus
Distichirhops
Flueggea
Gonatogyne
Heywoodia
Hieronyma
Hymenocardia
Jablonskia
Keayodendron
Lachnostylis
Leptonema
Leptopus
Lingelsheimia
Maesobotrya
Margaritaria
Martretia
Meineckia
Nothobaccaurea
Oreoporanthera
Pentabrachion
Phyllanthus
Plagiocladus
Poranthera
Protomegabaria
Pseudolachnostylis
Richeria
Savia
Securinega
Spondianthus
Tacarcuna
Thecacoris
Uapaca
Wielandia
Zimmermannia
Zimmermanniopsis
Phylogeny
The revision of Phyllanthaceae by Hoffmann and co-authors was based on two molecular phylogenetic studies that were published in 2005.[5][6] Since the revision, phylogenetic studies have been done on some of the tribes.[7][24]
The phylogenetic tree shown below is based on the results of several studies.[7][11][12][13] Fifty-one genera are represented. Chonocentrum(Phyllanthaceae, incertae sedis), and three members of the tribe Scepeae (Ashtonia, Distichirrhops, and Nothobaccaurea) have not yet been sampled for DNA. Chonocentrum is known from only a single specimen collected in the 1850s.[23]
In the phylogeny shown below, statistical support for the clades was measured by bootstrap percentage. All branches shown below have maximum parsimony bootstrap support of at least 70%.
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