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Icacinaceae
Sign in to saveThe Icacinaceae, also called the white pear family, are a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees, shrubs, and lianas, primarily of the tropics.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderIcacinales
- FamilyIcacinaceae
General: Icacinaceae genera are mostly endemic to major Appearance: Distinguishing characters (always present): Icacinaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,669
- With media
- 1,036
- Family
- Icacinaceae
- Collections
- USNM, UACH, CAS, BRIT, MEL, IGL-UNAM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Madagascar, Philippines, Malaysia, Gabon, Vietnam, Brazil
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Icacinaceae, also called the white pear family, are a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees, shrubs, and lianas, primarily of the tropics.
The family was traditionally circumscribed quite broadly, with around 55 genera totalling over 400 species. In 2001, though, this circumscription was found to be polyphyletic, and the family was split into four families in three different orders: Icacinaceae sensu stricto (then unplaced at order rank), Pennantiaceae (Apiales), Stemonuraceae (Aquifoliales) and Cardiopteridaceae (also Aquifoliales). Other genera have later been moved to Metteniusaceae (Metteniusales), so that Icacinaceae now include c. 23 genera and 160 species. One genus, Sleumeria, was described as late as 2005.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Icacinaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.