| Calceolariaceae | |
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| Calceolaria herbeohybrida | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Calceolariaceae Olmstead[1] |
| Genera[2] | |
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Calceolariaceae is a family offlowering plants in theorderLamiales that has been recently segregated fromScrophulariaceae. The family includes twogenera,Calceolaria andJovellana.Porodittia is treated as a synonym ofCalceolaria.[3][4] Recent molecularphylogenies that includedCalceolaria have shown not only that this genus does not belong in Scrophulariaceae (or any of the numerous families recently segregated fromScrophulariaceae) but also that it is the sisterclade to the majority of the other families of the Lamiales. Morphological and chemical characters also support the separation of Calceolariaceae from Scrophulariaceae and other Lamiales. Some recent studies have supported a sister-group relationship between Calceolariaceae andGesneriaceae.[4] Given this close relationship, some authors opt to merge this family into Gesneriaceae as subfamily Calceolarioideae[5]
