Dilleniaceae

Dilleniaceae
Hibbertia stellaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	unplaced
Family:	Dilleniaceae Salisb.
Genera
10, including: Davilla Dillenia Doliocarpus Hibbertia Schumacheria Tetracera

Dilleniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It is known to gardeners for the genus Hibbertia, which contains many commercially valuable garden species.

The family consists of about a dozen genera, of a few hundred species, found in the tropics and sub-tropics plus entire Australia. The species are mostly woody plants, but range from herbaceous plants up to large trees.

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), also recognizes this family, unplaced as to order, assigned to the clade core eudicots.

APG II debates either including it in order Caryophyllales or reinstating the order Dilleniales for just this one family, but decides to leave it unplaced.

External links

• Dilleniaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 3 May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
• at the University of Hawaii
• at PlantSystematics.org
• NCBI Taxonomy Browser
• links at CSDL

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