Linderniaceae
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The Linderniaceae is a family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of flowering plants in the order Lamiales
Lamiales
Lamiales is an order in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes approximately 11,000 species divided into about 20 families...

, which consists of about 13 genera
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 and 195 species from worldwide, mainly in neotropics.

In other classifications it used to be included within family Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae
Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family, are a family of flowering plants. The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers with bilateral or rarely radial symmetry. Members of the Scrophulariaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority found in temperate areas, including...

 sensu lato or more recently in Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae
Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago L..In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but numerous phylogenetic studies, summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have...

 sensu lato, but several authors have demonstrated that this taxon should be segregated
Segregate (taxonomy)
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 from those families, as Linderniaceae, and it has been recognized by LAPG II and APG III.

List of Genera

Compiled from source GRIN:
  • Artanema
    Artanema
    The genus Artanema is a small group of flowering plant species in the figwort family, Plantaginaceae, but also classified in Linderniaceae by some authors.- Selected species :* Artanema fimbriatum D. Don...

    D. Don
  • Bampsia Lisowski & Mielcarek
  • Chamaegigas
    Chamaegigas
    Chamaegigas is a genus which contains only one species, Chamaegigas intrepidus, an aquatic plant that is native to central-west Namibia, growing in semi-arid and savanna regions...

    Dinter ex Heil
  • Craterostigma Hochst. - sometimes considered as part of Lindernia
  • Crepidorhopalon Eb. Fisch.
  • Hartliella Eb. Fisch.
  • Lindernia All.
  • Micranthemum Michx.
  • Picria Lour.
  • Pierranthus Bonati
  • Schizotorenia T. Yamaz.
  • Scolophyllum T. Yamaz.
  • Stemodiopsis Engl.
  • Torenia
    Torenia
    Torenia is a genus of plants in the snapdragon family, Scrophulariaceae or also classified in Linderniaceae by some authors. Often called Wishbone flowers, some species are grown as garden plants. Many F1 and F2 Torenia hybrids have been hybridizied in the last 30 years. Colors can range from white...

    L.
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