Quiinaceae
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Adolf Engler
Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl A. E...
is a neotropical family of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the Malpighiales
Malpighiales
Malpighiales is one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 16000 species, approximately 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse and hard to recognize except with molecular phylogenetic evidence. It is not part of any of the classification systems that are based only on...
, consisting of about 50 species in 4 genera (Froesia, Lacunaria
Lacunaria
Lacunaria is a genus of plant in family Ochnaceae. It contains the following species :* Lacunaria panamensis, Standl....
, Quiina
Quiina
Quiina is a genus of plant in family Ochnaceae. It contains the following species :* Quiina colonensis, D'Arcy* Quiina jamaicensis, Griseb.* Quiina schippii...
, Touroulia). The APG III system
APG III system
The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy...
of flowering plant classification does not recognize such a family, instead including these genera in the Ochnaceae
Ochnaceae
The family Ochnaceae, or wild plane family, comprises mainly trees or shrubs, and more rarely herbaceous plants. Species of the Ochnaceae are found from subtropical to tropical regions. They are best represented in South America...
family.