Metteniusaceae
Family of trees
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Metteniusaceae are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the order Metteniusales.[1] It consists of about 10 genera and 50 species[2] of trees, shrubs, and lianas, primarily of the tropics. The family was formerly restricted to just Metteniusa, but it is now expanded with a number of genera that were formerly placed in the widely polyphyletic Icacinaceae.
| Metteniusaceae | |
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| Metteniusa tessmanniana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Metteniusales Takht.[1] |
| Family: | Metteniusaceae H.Karst. ex Schnizl.[1] |
| Genera | |
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Genera
As of June 2016[update], the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website accepts 11 genera:[3]
- Apodytes - c. 6 species
- Calatola - 7 species
- Dendrobangia - 3 species
- Emmotum - c. 10 species
- Metteniusa - 7 species
- Oecopetalum - 3 species
- Ottoschulzia - 3 species
- Pittosporopsis
- Platea - 8 species
- Poraqueiba - 3 species
- Rhaphiostylis - c. 10 species