Flacourtiaceae was a flowering plant family in the Cronquist system and several others of plant classification. It is often complained that Arthur Cronquist had a habit of dumping all the left-over members of an order, the "scraps" that did not clearly fit into any one family in that order with closely related genera, into a single catch-all family, or "garbage pail" family. Flacourtiaceae seems to be the family to fill this role for the order of Violales within Cronquist's system. The tropical, subtropical and temperate species have few defining common threads, and Flacourtiaceae is quite diverse for a family. It has been suggested that Angiospermae, and Anthophyta be merged into this article or section. ... A system of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). ... Arthur C. Cronquist (1919–1992) was a North American botanist who wrote An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants (1988). ...
In Cronquist's classification, it included 89 genera and more than 800 living species. Of these, many, including the type genus Flacourtia, have now been transferred to the Salicaceae in the genetic classification established by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. Genera See text. ... Genetics (from the Greek genno γεννώ= give birth) is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. ... The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group is an international group of systematic botanists who have come together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants in the light of the rapid rise of molecular systematics. ...
Genera formerly included in Flacourtiaceae (current family in brackets)
Flacourtiaceae, or the Indian plum family, is a family of plants within the order Violales.
It is often complained that Arthur Cronquist had a habit of dumping all the left-over members of an order -- the "scraps" that did not clearly fit into any one family in that order with closely related genera -- into a single catch-all family, or "garbage pail" family.
Flacourtiaceae seems to be the family to fill this role for the order of Violales within Cronquist's system.
Flacourtiaceae was a flowering plant family in the old Cronquist system of plant classification.
It is often complained that Arthur Cronquist had a habit of dumping all the left-over members of an order, the "scraps" that did not clearly fit into any one family in that order with closely related genera, into a single catch-all family, or "garbage pail" family.
Of these, many, including the type genus Flacourtia, have now been transferred to the Salicaceae in the genetic classification established by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
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