Rapateaceae
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Rapateaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The APG II system, of 2003 also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. This represents a slight change from the APG system, 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but placed it in the same clade (although it used the spelling "commelinoids"). The family consists of probably less than a hundred species, found in tropical South America and tropical west Africa.
The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognized this family and placed it in the order Commelinales in the subclass Commelinidae in class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons] in division Magnoliophyta [=angiosperms].
External links :
- * [Rapateaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). [The families of flowering plants]: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 27th April 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
- * [NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
- * [links at CSDL]
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