English: Chamois horn plants.
Botany: New World; mucilaginous hairs; stems and leaves have a slimy or clammy feel; fruits with hooks or horns.
Genera: Craniolaria, Holoregmia, Ibicella, Martynia, Proboscidea.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Martyniaceae is
Family in
Lamiales.
In the
Plant theory Verbenales is split off from
Lamiales.
Martyniaceae is in
Subphase 3 in
Verbenales.