Aptandraceae Explained
The Aptandraceae is a family of flowering plants in the sandalwood order Santalales that is recognized by some sources; others sink the family in Olacaceae. The members of the tropical plant family are parasitic on other plants, usually on the roots, and grow as trees, shrubs or woody lianas.[1] [2] [3] [4] The genera of the family have long been recognized by taxonomists as forming a clade (van Tieghem (1896), Pierre (1897), and Gagnepain (1910)), but have usually been placed in the family Olacaceae.[5] In the APG III and APG IV systems, it was accepted that the Olacaceae sensu lato were paraphyletic but new family limits were not proposed as relationships were considered uncertain.[6] Subsequently, some sources have accepted the division of Olacaceae into six families, including Aptandraceae.[7] Others continue to use a broad circumscription of Olacaceae.[8]
Genera
, eight genera were placed in this family by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website.[7], Plants of the World Online placed all the genera in Olacaceae.[8]
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Notes and References
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- Book: Verma, B.K.. Introduction to Taxonomy of Angiosperms. 2010. Prentice-Hall of India. 978-8120341142.
- Book: Nickrent . D. L. . Santalales (Including Mistletoes) . 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003714.pub2 . Encyclopedia of Life Sciences . 2011 . 0470016175 .
- Malécot . V. R. . Nickrent . D. L. . Baas . P. . Van Den Oever . L. . Lobreau-Callen . D. . A Morphological Cladistic Analysis of Olacaceae . 10.1600/0363644041744301 . Systematic Botany . 29 . 3 . 569 . 2004 .
- 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x . 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 . 2009 . free . 10654/18083 . free .
- Web site: Stevens . P.F. . Aptandraceae . Angiosperm Phylogeny Website . 2021-07-18 .
- Web site: Olacaceae Juss. ex R.Br. . Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021-07-18 .