Botany: 75 genera; 1300 species; tropics and subtropics; Americas, Caribbean, Africa,
Madagascar; Indomalaya to the Philippines; pollinators reward in the form of nutrient oils.
TaxonomyMalpighiaceae is a family of tropical climbers.
Elatinaceae is a family of 2 genera, one is Bergia, which are shrubs and the other is Elatine, which are aquatics.
Elatinaceae are unknown in homeopathy.
In the
Plant theory Malpighiaceae is placed in Suphase 2.
Elatinaceae is included in
Malpighiaceae.
Banisteriopsis caapi and
Galphimia glauca are known in homeopathy.
LiteratureDavis, Charles & Anderson, William & Donoghue, Michael; PHYLOGENY OF MALPIGHIACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM CHLOROPLAST NDHF AND TRNL-F NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES1; American Journal of
Botany 88(10): 1830–1846. 2001.