TheFlacourtiaceae is adefunctfamily offlowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various families, mostly to theAchariaceae andSalicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became adumping ground for odd and anomalous genera, gradually making the family even more heterogeneous.[1] In 1975,Hermann Sleumer noted that "Flacourtiaceae as a family is a fiction; only thetribes are homogeneous."[2]
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