Dasypogonaceae is afamily offlowering plants based on the type genusDasypogon, one that has traditionally not been commonly recognized by taxonomists; the plants it contains were usually included in the familyXanthorrhoeaceae. If valid, Dasypogonaceae includes four genera with 16 species.[1] The family is endemic to Australia. The best known representative isKingia australis.
The 2016APG IV system places the family in the orderArecales, after several studies revealed the family as a sister taxon toArecaceae, the palm family.[2] Other authors find that the placement of Dasypogonaceae remains undetermined, due to conflicting models, and leave it in an order of its own, theDasypogonales.[3][4]
The earlierAPG III (2009),APG II (2003), and the 1998APG system all accepted the validity of the family, assigning it to the cladecommelinids, but leaving it unplaced as to order.[5] The commelinids aremonocots, the broad group to which, in any event, these plants clearly belong.
^Givnish, Thomas J.; Zuluaga, Alejandro; Spalink, Daniel; Soto Gomez, Marybel; Lam, Vivienne K. Y.; Saarela, Jeffrey M.; Sass, Chodon; Iles, William J. D.; de Sousa, Danilo José Lima; Leebens-Mack, James; Chris Pires, J.; Zomlefer, Wendy B.; Gandolfo, Maria A.; Davis, Jerrold I.; Stevenson, Dennis W.; dePamphilis, Claude; Specht, Chelsea D.; Graham, Sean W.; Barrett, Craig F.;Ané, Cécile (November 2018), "Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi-gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots",American Journal of Botany,105 (11):1888–1910,doi:10.1002/ajb2.1178,hdl:2027.42/146610,PMID30368769
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