Sabiaceae
Encyclopedia
Sabiaceae is a family
of flowering plants, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern Asia
and the Americas
.
In the Cronquist system
the family was placed in the order Ranunculales
, but more recent classifications place it as the sole family in the order Sabiales, or (as in the APG II system
), as unplaced to order and left among the basal lineages of the eudicots
.
The family consists of three genera and about 160 species of woody plants. The genus Sabia often are lianas, while those in the genera Meliosma
and Ophiocaryon are trees and shrubs; the latter two are sometimes treated in a separate family Meliosmaceae.
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, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and the Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
.
In the Cronquist system
Cronquist system
The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants. It was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants .Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two...
the family was placed in the order Ranunculales
Ranunculales
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots...
, but more recent classifications place it as the sole family in the order Sabiales, or (as in the APG II system
APG II system
The APG II system of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was superseded in 2009...
), as unplaced to order and left among the basal lineages of the eudicots
Eudicots
Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are botanical terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton to refer to a monophyletic group of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-Magnoliid dicots by previous authors...
.
The family consists of three genera and about 160 species of woody plants. The genus Sabia often are lianas, while those in the genera Meliosma
Meliosma
Meliosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. It is traditionally considered to contain about 100 species; some botanists take a much more conservative view accepting only 20-25 species as...
and Ophiocaryon are trees and shrubs; the latter two are sometimes treated in a separate family Meliosmaceae.