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Ochnaceae
English: Wild plane family.
Botany: 53 genera; 600 species; trees or shrubs, rarely herbs; subtropical to tropical; South America; evergreen petiolate leaves, sometimes leathery, simple and alternate, sometimes racemose, paniculate or more rarely pinnate; hermaphroditic.
Medusagynaceae: 1 species, Medusagyne oppositifolia.
Quiinaceae: 4 genera: Froesia, Lacunaria, Quiina, Touroulia; 50 species; neotropical.
Taxonomy
In the Apg3 classification Ochnaceae is one of the Families in Malpighiales. Quiinaceae and Medusagynaceae are closely related to Ochnaceae and can be included in Ochnaceae
In the Plant theory Ochnaceae is treated in the same way and placed in Subphase 5.
Subfamilies and Tribes
Subfamily Medusagynoideae: Medusagyne.
Subfamily Quiinoideae
clade: Froesia.
clade: Quiina, Touroulia, Lacunaria.
Subfamily Ochnoideae
Testuleeae: Testulea.
Luxemburgieae (Formerly Luxemburgoideae): Luxemburgia, Philacra.
Ochneae
Lophirinae: Elvasia, Elvasiinae, Lophira, Perissocarpa.
Ochninae (Ochneae): Brackenridgea, Campylospermum, Idertia, Ochna, Ouratea, Rhabdophyllum.
Sauvagesieae: Adenarake, Blastemanthus, Cespedesia, Euthemis, Fleurydora, Godoya, Indosinia, Krukoviella,Neckia, Poecilandra, Rhytidanthera, Sauvagesia, Schuurmansia, Schuurmansiella, Tyleria, Wallacea.
Literature
Bissiengou, Pulcherie; Systematics, evolution and historical biogeography of the family Ochnaceae with emphasis on the genus Campylospermum; Thesis at the University of Wageningen; ISBN 978-94-6257-222-5; 2014.