Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. Modern classification has its roots in the system of Carolus Linnaeus, who grouped species according to shared physical characteristics. These groupings have been revised since Linnaeus to improve consistency with the Darwinian...
Scientific classification
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. The other seed plants are called gymnosperms; here the ovule is...
Magnoliophyta
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Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. Flowering plants or angiosperms that are not dicotyledonous are monocotyledonous: having one embryonic leaf. See How to distinguish a monocot from a dicot for other characteristics that separate these two large groups of...
Magnoliopsida
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Families See text The Malpighiales are a large order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. Under the older Cronquist system, the families now included in the Malpighiales were dispersed throughout a number of different orders, not all of which belonged to the Rosidae. The most notable...
Malpighiales
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Phyllanthaceae
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The family Phyllanthaceae comprises 1725 In biology, a species is a kind of organism. Loosely speaking, a species is a related group of organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. As defined by Ernst Mayr, species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively...
species of trees, shrubs and herbs distributed in all The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. This area lies approximately between 23.5° N latitude and 23.5...
tropical regions of the world. In total, it has 56 See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. See genus (music) for the use of the term in music. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. In the common binomial...
genera, among which 55 were classified as a subfamily (Phyllanthoideae) in the family Genera see text Ref: Delta as of 2002-07-13 The Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) is a large family of flowering plants with 335 genera and more than 7,500 species. Description Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti...
Euphorbiaceae until recently. The genus Hymenocardia is an exception coming from the family Hymenocardiaceae.
Species See text Amanoa is a neotropical genus from the subfamily Phyllantoidea in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). It consists of trees or shrubs, occurring in the tropical rainforest of South America and Africa. Species (with common names) Amanoa caribaea : Carapite Amanoa, Carapite. Amanoa guianensis : Guiana Amanoa. Other species...
Amanoa
Species see text Antidesma is a genus of about 100 tropical plants from the Spurge family Euphorbiaceae. – subfamily Phyllantoideae, tribe Antidesmeae This genus consists of shrubs or trees, up to 30 m, growing in evergreen forests. They occur in the Old World tropics, mainly in SE Asia, but also...
Antidesma
Kathriarachchi, H., Samuel R., Hoffmann, P., Wurdack, K. and Chase, W. Phylogenetic relationships in Phyllanthus and relatives (Phyllanthaceae): Evidence from nuclear ITS and plastid matK sequences.
Kathriarachchi, H. Samuel R., Hoffmann, P., Wurdack, K. and Chase, W. Molecular phylogenetics of Phyllanthaceae: Evidence from plastid atpB, matK, ndhF, rbcL and single-copy nuclear PHYC sequences.
Kathriarachchi, H. Samuel R., Hoffmann, P., Wurdack, K. Stuessy T. and Chase, W. Phylogenetic relationships in the subtribe Flueggeinae (Phyllanthaceae) with emphasis on genus Phyllanthus: Evidence from nuclear ITS and plastid matK sequences.
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