| Phytolaccaceae | |
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| Phytolacca acinosa | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Phytolaccaceae R.Br.[1][2] |
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| Synonyms | |
AgdestidaceaeNakai | |
Phytolaccaceae is afamily offlowering plants. Though almost universally recognized bytaxonomists, its circumscription has varied. It is also known as thePokeweed family.
TheAPG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from theAPG system, of 1998), also recognizes this family and assigns it to the orderCaryophyllales in the cladecore eudicots. The family comprises fivegenera, totalling 33 knownspecies.[3] It is divided into the subfamilies Agdestioideae and Phytolaccoideae, with the former Rivinioideae in theTakhtajan system,[4] now placed in its own familyPetiveriaceae
The Phytolaccaceae includes the following genera:
The following genera were previously included in the Phytolaccaceae:[5]
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