| Loasaceae | |
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| Loasa vulcanica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Cornales |
| Family: | Loasaceae Juss. |
| Type genus | |
| Loasa Adans. | |
| Genera | |
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Loasaceae is a family of 15–20 genera and about 200–260 species of flowering plants in the order Cornales, native to the Americas and Africa. Members of the family include annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants, and a few shrubs and small trees. Members of the subfamily Loasoideae are known to exhibit rapid thigmonastic stamen movement when pollinators are present.
Taxonomy
In the classification system of Dahlgren the Loasaceae were placed in the order Loasales in the superorder Loasiflorae (also called Loasanae). The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system places them in the related order Cornales in the asterid clade.
Genera
21 genera are accepted:
- Aosa Weigend (sometimes included in Loasa)
- Blumenbachia Schrad.
- Caiophora C.Presl
- Cevallia Lag.
- Eucnide Zucc.
- Fuertesia Urb.
- Grausa Weigend & R.H.Acuña
- Gronovia Houst ex L.
- Huidobria Gay (sometimes included in Loasa)
- Kissenia R.Br. ex Endl.
- Klaprothia Kunth
- Loasa Adans.
- Mentzelia Plum ex L.
- Nasa Weigend (sometimes included in Loasa)
- Petalonyx A.Gray
- Pinnasa Weigend & R.H.Acuña
- Plakothira Florence
- Presliophytum (Urb. & Gilg) Weigend (sometimes included in Loasa)
- Schismocarpus S.F.Blake
- Scyphanthus Sweet
- Xylopodia Weigend
References
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
- Henning, Tilo; Weigend, Maximilian (2013). "Beautiful, complicated--and intelligent? Novel aspects of the thigmonastic stamen movement in Loasaceae". Plant Signaling & Behavior. 8(6) (e24605): e24605. Bibcode:2013PlSiB...8E4605H. doi:10.4161/psb.24605. PMC 3909056. PMID 23603953.
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385. ISSN 0024-4074.
- Loasaceae Juss. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
External links
- Germplasm Resources Information Network: Loasaceae
- Chilean Loasaceae in Chileflora, seed provider
- Loasaceae in BoDD – Botanical Dermatology Database
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| Loasaceae |
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