The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa. A clade is a term belonging to the discipline of cladistics. ... Orders See text. ... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ... A cosmopolitan distribution is a term applied to a biological category of living things meaning that this category can be found anywhere around the world. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...

They are mostly shrubs and vines, rarely herbs, including some ornamental garden plants in temperate regions. The leaves are mostly opposite with no stipules (= appendage at the base of a leafstalk or petiole), and may be either evergreen or deciduous. The flowers are tubular funnel-shaped or bell-like, usually with five outward spreading lobes or points, and are often fragrant. They usually form a small calyx with small bracts. The fruit is in most cases a berry or a drupe. The genera, Diervilla and Weigela, have capsular fruit. A broom shrub in flower A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up foliage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up foliage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off) and is typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally. ... For other uses, see Flower (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). ... This article is about the fruit. ... The peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit) In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. ... Flowers and fruit (capsules) of the ground orchid, Spathoglottis plicata. ...

Taxonomy

(with approximate numbers of species).

Much of the debate over the taxonomy of plants in Dipsacales has been settled. Two of the most familiar members of Dipsacales, the elder and the viburnum, formerly in Caprifoliaceae, have been moved into Adoxaceae, along with some other genera. Species See text Elder or Elderberry (Sambucus) is a genus of between 5–30 species of shrubs or small trees (two species herbaceous), formerly treated in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, but now shown by genetic evidence to be correctly classified in the moschatel family Adoxaceae. ... Species About 150 species; see text Viburnum (Viburnum) is a genus of about 175 species of shrubs or (in a few species) small trees that were previously included in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. ... Genera Adoxa - Moschatel Sambucus - Elder Viburnum - Viburnum The Adoxaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Dipsacales, as now constituted comprising three genera and about 150-200 species. ...

The evolutionary taxonomy of Dipsacales:

Diervilleae

• Diervilla (Bush Honeysuckle): 3 species
• Weigela: 10 species.

Heptacodium Species Diervilla sessilifolia Diervilla lonicera Diervilla rivularis Bush Honeysuckle is a name given to any of three species of deciduous shrubs of the genus Diervilla in the family Caprifoliaceae. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

• Heptacodium (Seven-son Flower): 1 species

Caprifoliaceae Heptacodium is a genus of plant in family Caprifoliaceae. ...

• Leycesteria: 6 species
• Lonicera (Honeysuckle): 180 species
• Symphoricarpos (Snowberry): 17 species
• Triosteum (Horsegentian): 6 species

Linnaeaceae Species Leycesteria crocothyrsos Leycesteria formosa Leycesteria glaucophylla Leycesteria gracilis Leycesteria sinensis Leycesteria stipulata Leycesteria thibetica Leycesteria is a genus of flowering plants in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, native to temperate Asia in the Himalaya and southwestern China. ... For an article on the New Zealand honeysuckle tree see Rewarewa. ... Species About 15 species; see text Symphoricarpos is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the family Caprifoliaceae. ... ...

• Abelia : 30 species
• Dipelta: 4 species
• Kolkwitzia (Beautybush): 1 species
• Linnaea : (Twinflower) : 1 species

Morinaceae Species See text Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Abelia Abelia is a genus of about 15-30 species and many hybrids in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, in the part of that family split off by some authors in the segregate family Linnaeaceae. ... Binomial name Linnaea borealis L. The twinflower (sometimes written twin flower, Linnaea borealis) is a woodland shrub. ...

• Cryptothladia
• Morina

Dipsacaceae Morina is a genus of the Dipsacaceae family. ...

• Acanthocalyx
• Pterocephalus
• Dipsacus
• Scabiosa

Triplostegia Species See text Acanthocalyx is a genus of about three species in the family Dipsacaceae, sometimes included in Morinaceae, native to Sino-Himalayan Region. ... Pterocephalus is a genus in the Dipsacaceae family of herbs and shrubs. ... Species See text. ... Species See text. ...

• Triplostegia

Valerianaceae

• Patrina
• Nardostachys
• Centranthus
• Plectritis
• Valeriana
• Valerianella
• Fedia

No longer included in Caprifoliaceae: Species Centranthus angustifolius (narrow-leaved valerian) Centranthus ruber (red valerian) Centranthus is a flowering plant genus comprising herbs and subshrubs native to Southern Europe. ... Species see text Plectritis is a genus of plants in the valerian family. ... Species (incomplete list) Valeriana acutiloba Valeriana arburua Valeriana arizonica Valerian californica Valeriana capitata Valeriana celtica Valeriana columbiana Valeriana dioica Valeriana edulis Valeriana occidentalis Valeriana officinalis Valeriana occidentalis Valeriana pauciflora Valeriana scandens Valeriana scouleri Valeriana septentrionalis Valeriana sitchensis Valeriana sorbifolia Valeriana texana Valeriana tiliifolia Valeriana tripteris Valeriana wallichii Valeriana is a... Valerianella is a genus of plant in family Valerianaceae. ...

(regarded by some as belonging to a separate family Adoxaceae /Alseuosmiaceae) Genera Adoxa - Moschatel Sambucus - Elder Viburnum - Viburnum The Adoxaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Dipsacales, as now constituted comprising three genera and about 150-200 species. ...

• Alseuosmia : 8 species
• Memecylanthus : 1 species
• Periomphale : 2 species

(regarded by some as belonging to a separate family Adoxaceae /Carlemanniaceae)

• Carlemannia : 3 species
• Silvianthus : 2 species.

Uses

The plants belonging to this family are mainly hardy ornamental shrubs or vines, many popular garden shrubs, especially Lonicera. A few have become invasive weeds outside of their native ranges (such as Lonicera japonica). Petunia This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

References

• Flowering Plants of the World, 1987, Vernon H. Heywood, Andromeda Oxford Ltd., ISBN 90-5210-165-5
• Botanica, Gordon Cheers, Random House Australia, ISBN 3-8290-1953-X

External links

• Caprifoliaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. http://delta-intkey.com
• Concordance of Angiosperm Family Names
• Species account : Caprifoliaceae
• Comparison Table for the Cornidae