? Altingiaceae
Liquidambar styraciflua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Saxifragales Family: Altingiaceae Lindl.
Genera
See text Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Saxifragales are an order of dicotyledons, typically including the following families: Family Saxifragaceae (saxifrage family) Family Grossulariaceae (gooseberry family) Family Iteaceae Family Pterostemonaceae Family Haloragidaceae Family Gunneraceae (gunnera family) Family Penthoraceae Family Tetracarpaeaceae Family Aphanopetalaceae Family Crassulaceae (orpine family) Family Altingiaceae (sweet gum family) Family Paeoniaceae... John Lindley (February 8, 1799 - November 1, 1865) was an English botanist. ...

The Altingiaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, including only three genera and about 18 species, all trees. In older classifications, they were often included in the family Hamamelidaceae. Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Families See text The Saxifragales are an order of dicotyledons, typically including the following families: Family Saxifragaceae (saxifrage family) Family Grossulariaceae (gooseberry family) Family Iteaceae Family Pterostemonaceae Family Haloragidaceae Family Gunneraceae (gunnera family) Family Penthoraceae Family Tetracarpaeaceae Family Aphanopetalaceae Family Crassulaceae (orpine family) Family Altingiaceae (sweet gum family) Family Paeoniaceae... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... Genera Corylopsis Disanthus Distylium Exbucklandia Fortunearia Fothergilla Hamamelis Liquidambar Loropetalum Parrotia Parrotiopsis Rhodoleia Sinowilsonia Sycopsis Genera Corylopsis (Winter-hazel; about 30 species; east Asia) Disanthus (1 species; east Asia) Distylium (about 10 species; east Asia) Exbucklandia (1 species; southeast Asia) Fortunearia (1 species; eastern China) Fothergilla (2 species; southeastern U...

Genera

• Altingia (11 species in southeastern Asia)
• Liquidambar (sweetgums; four species; one in eastern North America to Central America, one in southwest Asia, two in eastern Asia)
• Semiliquidambar (three species, all endemic in China)

World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia, defined by subtracting Europe from Eurasia. ... Species Liquidambar formosana Liquidambar orientalis Liquidambar styraciflua The sweetgums Liquidambar are a genus in the witch-hazel family Hamamelidaceae, with three species of large deciduous trees, 25-40m tall, with palmately lobed leaves: Liquidambar formosana - Chinese Sweetgum (central & southern China, Taiwan). ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ... In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or one of various ways of being not native (e. ...

External links

• Altingiaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.