Huaceae
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Huaceae is a family of plant
in the rosids group, which has been classed in the orders Malpighiales
, Malvales
, and Violales
or in its own order Huales. The APG II system
places it in the clade eurosids I, whereas the APG III system
of 2009 placed it within the Oxalidales
. It contains the following genera:
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in the rosids group, which has been classed in the orders 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...
, Malvales
Malvales
Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, it includes about 6000 species within nine families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots....
, and Violales
Violales
Violales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants and takes its name from the included family Violaceae. The name has been used in several systems, although some systems used the name Parietales for similar groupings...
or in its own order Huales. 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 It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was superseded in 2009...
places it in the clade eurosids I, whereas 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 2009 placed it within the Oxalidales
Oxalidales
The Oxalidales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of eudicots. The following families are typically placed here:* Family Brunelliaceae* Family Cephalotaceae * Family Connaraceae...
. It contains the following genera:
- AfrostyraxAfrostyraxAfrostyrax is a genus of plant in family Huaceae . It contains the following species:* Afrostyrax kamerunensis Perkins & Gilg* Afrostyrax lepidophyllus Mildbr.* Afrostyrax macranthus Mildbr....
- Hua