Picramniaceae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Picramniales

Familia: Picramniaceae
Genera: Aenigmanu – Alvaradoa – Nothotalisia – Picramnia
Name

Picramniaceae Fernando & Quinn, Taxon 44: 177. (1995)

Type genus: Picramnia Sw., Prodr. [O. P. Swartz] 2, 27. nom. cons. (1788)

References
Primary references

Fernando, E.S. & Quinn, C.J. 1995. Picramniaceae, a new family, and a recircumscription of Simaroubaceae. Taxon 44(2): 177–181. JSTOR ResearchGate Reference page.

Additional references

Thomas, W.W. 2011. Nothotalisia, a new genus of Picramniaceae from tropical America. Brittonia 63(1): 51–61. DOI: 10.1007/s12228-010-9130-8 Reference page.
Thomas, W.W., Hensold, N., Foster, R., Ree, R.H. & Soares Neto, R.L. 2021. Aenigmanu, a new genus of Picramniaceae from Western Amazonia. Taxon 70(6): 1239–1247. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12588 Paywall. Reference page.
Reveal, J.L. 2010. A checklist of familial and suprafamilial names for extant vascular plants. Phytotaxa 6: 1–402. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.6.1.1 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Picramniaceae in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Oct. 31. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Picramniaceae. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 31 2021.
Tropicos.org 2014. Picramniaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 25 Jan. 2014.
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: 苦榄木科

Picramniaceae is a small, mainly neotropical family of four genera Aenigmanu, Alvaradoa, Nothotalisia[2] and Picramnia. The family is the only member of the order Picramniales. Members of the family were formerly placed in the family Simaroubaceae or misidentified as species in the family Sapindaceae, in the order Sapindales. The most recent standard classification of the Angiosperms (the APG III system)[1] distinguishes it as a separate family and order. It belongs to the malvids (eurosids II), one of the three groups that constitute the rosids.

In 2021, a new genus was identified from materials collected almost 50 years prior. It was discovered by Robert Foster in 1973, but no scientist was able to identify it.[3] It is named Aenigmanu for the enigma it originally presented to researchers.[4]

Family Picramniaceae
Genus Aenigmanu
Genus Alvaradoa
Genus Nothotalisia
Genus Picramnia

Characteristics

The occurrence of tariric acid as the major fatty acid is typical for the Picramniaceae.[5]
References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
Thomas WW (2011). Nothotalisia, a new genus of Picramniaceae from tropical America. Brittonia 63:51–61
Barillas, Martin M. (2021-10-06). "'Mystery Plant' Finally Declared A New Species Decades After Its Discovery". Zenger News. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
"Mystery plant" from the Amazon declared a new species after nearly 50 years of flummoxing scientists". eurekalert. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
R. Hänsel, 22. Lipide in: R. Hänsel, O. Sticher (Hrsg.) Pharmakognosie Phytopharmazie 9. Auflage (2010) 673–674 Springer, Heidelberg ISBN 978-3-642-00962-4 (Google Books)