The families Siparunaceae,Gomortegaceae, and Atherospermataceae form one of the three majorclades that constitute the order Laurales. Siparunaceae issister to the clade composed of Gomortegaceae and Atherospermataceae.[7]
In 1898,Janet Russell Perkins began a series ofarticles on Monimiaceae, but only two were ever completed. The second of these was mis-titled as part III on its first page (compare to table of contents therein)[8] and covers the genusSiparuna.
^Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alastair Culham.Flowering Plant Families of the World. Firefly Books: Ontario, Canada. (2007).ISBN978-1-55407-206-4.
^William R. Philipson. 1993. "Monimiaceae". pages 426-437. In: Klaus Kubitski (editor); Jens G. Rohwer and Volker Bittrich (volume editors).The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume II. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany.
^Julien Massoni, Félix Forest, and Hervé Sauquet. 2014. "Increased sampling of both genes and taxa improves resolution of phylogenetic relationships within Magnoliidae, a large and early-diverging clade of angiosperms".Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution70( ):84-93.doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.010
^Janet R. Perkins. 1901. "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Monimiaceae. II. Monographie der GattungSiparuna".Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie28(5):660-705.
The Official Siparuna Website An online key to all species of Siparunaceae and Monimiaceae occurring in Ecuador, with descriptions, specimen citations, geographic information, and illustrations of all species.
