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Rhamnaceae
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The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales.
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Rhamnaceae is a family of plants within the kingdom Plantae, phylum Tracheophyta, and class Magnoliopsida. It belongs to the order Rosales, though some classifications place it under Rhamnales or Celastrales. The family’s type genus is Rhamnus. Common names for the group include ramnacees, Murdarçakimilər, and brakvedsväxter. Members of this family produce drupes as their fruit type.
Records of Rhamnaceae are held by various institutions, including CICY, IIB-UV, FESI-UNAM, IBUNAM, and UCMP. These records document occurrences in Mexico, the United States, and Guatemala. The family has an accepted taxonomic status and is associated with a large number of occurrence records and encyclopedia references.
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Species
brakvedsväxter
Rhamnaceae
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRosales
- FamilyRhamnaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,018
- With media
- 1,000
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Collections
- CICY, IIB-UV, FESI-UNAM, IBUNAM, UCMP
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Guatemala
Research
2,045 papers- The genus Alphitonia Reissek ex Endl. (Rhamnaceae): A review of its customary uses, phytochemistry and biological activities.ReviewJournal of ethnopharmacology · 2022Al Omar R, Micklewright R, Masud K et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2022.115168
- Fire-prone Rhamnaceae with South African affinities in Cretaceous Myanmar amber.Nature plants · 2022Shi C, Wang S, Cai HH et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-01091-w
- Dispersal modes affect Rhamnaceae diversification rates in a differentiated manner.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Chen YS, Muellner-Riehl AN, Yang Y et al.DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1926
- Magnoflorine alleviates colitis-induced anxiety-like behaviors by regulating gut microbiota and microglia-mediated neuroinflammation.Microbiome · 2025Wang L, Li M, Dong Y et al.DOI: 10.1186/s40168-025-02158-y
- Rapid in situ diversification rates in Rhamnaceae explain the parallel evolution of high diversity in temperate biomes from global to local scales.The New phytologist · 2024Tian Q, Stull GW, Kellermann J et al.DOI: 10.1111/nph.19504
- Revisiting chloroplast genomic landscape and annotation towards comparative chloroplast genomes of Rhamnaceae.BMC plant biology · 2023Wanichthanarak K, Nookaew I, Pasookhush P et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04074-5
- Cyclopeptide Alkaloids from Discaria chacaye (Rhamnaceae) as Result of Symbiosis with Frankia (Actinomycetales).Chemistry & biodiversity · 2022Quiroz-Carreño S, Muñoz-Nuñez E, Silva FL et al.DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202200630
- Flowers from Myanmar amber confirm the Cretaceous age of Rhamnaceae but not of the extant genus Phylica.Nature plants · 2024Oskolski AA, Morris BB, Severova EE et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01591-x
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- Rhamnaceae
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- family
- taxon name
- Rhamnaceae
- topic's main category
- Category:Rhamnaceae
- taxon common name
- krhlikovke
- has fruit type
- drupe
- taxonomic type
- Rhamnus
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Genera
- Systematics
- Fossil record
- References
- External links
The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales.
The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are more common in the subtropical and tropical regions. The earliest fossil evidence of Rhamnaceae is from the Late Cretaceous. Fossil flowers have been collected from the Upper Cretaceous of Mexico and the Paleocene of Argentina.
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