Picrodendraceae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Picrodendraceae
Tribus: Caletieae – Picrodendreae – Podocalyceae

Genera: Androstachys – Aristogeitonia – Austrobuxus – Choriceras – Dissiliaria – Hyaenanche – Kairothamnus – Longetia – Micrantheum – Mischodon – Neoroepera – Oldfieldia – Parodiodendron – Petalostigma – Picrodendron – Piranhea – Podocalyx – Pseudanthus – Sankowskya – Scagea – Stachyandra – Stachystemon – Tetracoccus – Voatamalo – Whyanbeelia
Name

Picrodendraceae Small, J. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 184. (1917) nom. cons.

Type species: Picrodendron Planch., London J. Bot. 5: 579. (1846)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Euphorbiaceae subfam. Oldfieldioideae C.Kohler & G.L.Webster, J. Arnold Arbor. 48: 308. (1967)

References

Small, J.K. 1917. Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 18: 184.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Picrodendraceae in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr. 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Picrodendraceae. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 19 2020.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.
Webster, G.L. 1975. Conspectus of a New Classification of the Euphorbiaceae. Taxon 24(5–6): 593–601. DOI: 10.2307/1220725 Paywall JSTOR Hybrid open access journal PDF Reference page.
Webster, G.L. 1994. Synopsis of the genera and suprageneric taxa of Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 81(1): 33-144. DOI: 10.2307/2399909 JSTOR Reference page.
Wurdack, K.J. & Davis, C.C. 2009. Malpighiales phylogenetics: Gaining ground on one of the most recalcitrant clades in the angiosperm tree of life. American Journal of Botany, 96(8): 1551-1570. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800207 PDF. Reference page.
Xi, Z., Ruhfel, B.R., Schaefer, H., Amorim, A.M., Sugumaran, M., Wurdack, K.J., Endress, P.K., Matthews, M.L., Stevens, P.F., Mathews, S. & Davis, C.C. 2012. Phylogenomics and a posteriori data partitioning resolve the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation Malpighiales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(43): 17519-17524. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205818109 Full text PDF Reference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 苦皮桐科

Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 species in 24 genera.[2] These are subtropical to tropical and found in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Madagascar, continental Africa, and tropical America. Its closest relatives are Phyllanthaceae.

This family used to be known as the subfamily Oldfieldioideae of the Euphorbiaceae.

Taxonomy

The family contains about 80 species organised into three tribes, ten subtribes and 24 genera.
Main article: List of Picrodendraceae genera
Genera

Androstachys
Aristogeitonia
Austrobuxus
Celaenodendron
Choriceras
Dissiliaria
Hyaenanche
Kairothamnus
Longetia
Micrantheum
Mischodon
Neoroepera
Oldfieldia
Paradrypetes
Parodiodendron
Petalostigma
Picrodendron
Piranhea
Podocalyx
Pseudanthus
Scagea
Stachyandra
Stachystemon
Tetracoccus
Voatamalo
Whyanbeelia

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 2013-06-26.
Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/