Overview
The Malpighiaceae, a of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales, comprises approximately 75 genera and 1300 species of the tropics and subtropics. About 80% of the genera and 90% of the species occur in the New World (West Indies and the southernmost United States to Argentina) and the rest in the Old World (Africa, Madagascar, and Indomalaysia to New Caledonia and the Philippines).
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Taxonomy
The Family Malpighiaceae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (9): Bambusoideae · Caryophylloideae · Epidendroideae · Iridoideae · Malpighioideae · Rhododendroideae · Scrophularioideae · Spiraeoideae · Ulmoideae
- Tribe (9): Antirrhineae · Bambuseae · Bombini · Coreopsideae · Irideae · Malaxideae · Rhododendreae · Sileneae · Spiraeeae
- Genus (128): Acmanthera · Acosmus · Acridocarpus · Adelphia · Adenoporces · Aenigmatanthera · Alcoceratothrix · Alicia · Amorimia · Anomalopteris · Anomalopterys · Aspicarpa · Aspidopterys · Atopocarpus · Banisteria · Banisterioides · Banisteriopsis · Barnebya · Blepharandra · Brachylophon · Brachypterys · Brittonella · Brysonima · Bunchosia · Burdachia · Byrsonima · Cabi · Callaeum · Callyntranthele · Calyptostylis · Camarea · Carolus · Carusia · Casimira · Caucanthus · Christianella · Clonodia · Coelostylis · Coleostachys · Cordobia · Cottsia · Cryptolappa · Diacidia · Diaspis · Dicella · Digoniopterys · Dinemagonum · Dinemandra · Diplopterys · Dolichopterys · Echinopterys · Ectopopterys · Eriocaucanthus · Excentradenia · Fimbriaria · Flabellaria · Flabellariopsis · Gaertnera · Gallardoa · Galphimia · Gaudichaudia · Glandonia · Heladena · Hemsleyna · Henleophytum · Heteropteris · Heteropterys · Hiptage · Hiraea · Janusia · Jubelina · Jubistylis · Lasiocarpus · Lophanthera · Lophopterys · Madagasikaria · Malacmaea · Malpighia · Malpighiodes · Malpigiantha · Mascagnia · Mcvaughia · Meckelia · Mezia · Microsteira · Microsteria · Mionandra · Molina · Niedenzuella · Peixotoa · Peregrina · Philgamia · Platynema · Pterandra · Ptilochaeta · Rhinopterys · Rhinopteryx · Rhynchophora · Rhyssopteris · Rhyssopterys · Rosanthus · Rudolphia · Ryssopteris · Ryssopterys · Schwannia · Sipapoa · Skoliopteris · Spachea · Sphedamnocarpus · Stenocalyx · Stigmaphyllon · Stigmatophyllon · Succowia · Tetrapodenia · Tetrapteris · Tetrapterys · Tetraspis · Thryallis · Triaspis · Tricomaria · Tricomariopsis · Triopteris · Triopterys · Tristellateia · Tritomopterys · Verrucularia · Verrucularina · Zymum
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4,197 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Family Malpighiaceae.
Genera
Acmanthera
Acmanthera is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Acmanthera comprises 7 species of trees, shrubs, or subshrubs native to Brazil. [more]
Acosmus
Acridocarpus
Acridocarpus is a genus of in family Malpighiaceae. [more]
Adelphia
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Adenoporces
Aenigmatanthera
Alcoceratothrix
Alicia
Amorimia
Amorimia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Amorimia comprises ten species of woody vines native to South America. [more]
Anomalopteris
Anomalopterys
Aspicarpa
Aspidopterys
Atopocarpus
Banisteria
Banisterioides
Banisteriopsis
Barnebya
Barnebya is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Barnebya comprises 2 species of trees and woody vines native to eastern Brazil. The genus is named in honor of the American botanist Rupert Charles Barneby (1911-2006). [more]
Blepharandra
Blepharandra is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Blepharandra comprises 6 species of trees and shrubs native to sandy savannas and scrub forests of Guyana, southern Venezuela, and Amazonian Brazil. [more]
Brachylophon
Brachypterys
Brittonella
Brysonima
Bunchosia
Bunchosia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Bunchosia comprises ca. 75 species of trees and shrubs native to dry woodlands, savannas, and wet forests. Its range extends from Mexico and the Caribbean to southeastern Brazil and adjacent Argentina. Bunchosia is one of three arborescent genera of Malpighiaceae with fleshy, bird-dispersed fruits. [more]
Burdachia
Byrsonima
Byrsonima is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Byrsonima comprises over 135 species of trees, shrubs, and subshrubs found in the New World tropics and subtropics from from southern Mexico, southeastern Florida, and the Caribbean to southeastern Brazil. [more]
Cabi
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Callaeum
Callyntranthele
Calyptostylis
Camarea
Carolus
Carusia
Casimira
Caucanthus
Christianella
Clonodia
Coelostylis
Coleostachys
Coleostachys is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Coleostachys contains only one species (C. genipifolia) of shrubs or treelets found in wet forests of the Amazonian lowlands of French Guiana and adjacent Brazil. [more]
Cordobia
Cottsia
Cryptolappa
Diacidia
Diacidia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Diacidia comprises 11 species of trees, shrubs, and subshrubs. Ten species (subg. Sipapoa) are found on the mountains of southern Venezuela and adjacent Brazil; one species (D. galphimioides) is widespread in the drainages of the Rio Negro and the Río Vaupés in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. [more]
Diaspis
Dicella
Digoniopterys
Dinemagonum
Dinemandra
Diplopterys
Dolichopterys
Echinopterys
Ectopopterys
Eriocaucanthus
Excentradenia
Fimbriaria
Flabellaria
Flabellariopsis
Gaertnera
Gaertnera is a genus of in family Rubiaceae. [more]
Gallardoa
Galphimia
Galphimia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Galphimia comprises 26 species of large herbs, shrubs, and treelets. Twenty-two species occur in Mexico, one (G. angustifolia) extending into Texas and one (G. speciosa) ranging to Nicaragua; four species (G. amambayensis, G. australis, G. brasiliensis, G. platyphylla) occur in South America, south of the Amazon Basin. Galphimia gracilis is widely cultivated in warm regions throughout the world (but often confused with G. glauca and also G. brasiliensis). Eight species (of Mexico and Central America) are distinctive in that the petals become stiff and papery, and persist past the stage of fruit maturation. [more]
Gaudichaudia
Glandonia
Glandonia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Glandonia comprises 3 species of trees or shrubs native to lowland forests along rivers or in areas periodically flooded in Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil. [more]
Heladena
Hemsleyna
Henleophytum
Heteropteris
Heteropterys
Heteropterys is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Heteropterys comprises over 140 species of woody vines, shrubs, and small trees found in the New World tropics and subtropics from northern Mexico and the West Indies to northern Argentina and southeastern Brazil. One widespread, mostly Caribbean species, H. leona, is also found in low wet places along the coast of West Africa from Senegal to Angola. [more]
Hiptage
Hiptage is a plant genus comprised of woody, perennial, flowering . Most described species are now included in Hiptage benghalensis. [more]
Hiraea
Hiraea is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Hiraea comprises over 55 species of woody vines and shrubs found in diverse habitats, except very dry vegetation types, in the New World tropics and subtropics from western Mexico to Paraguay and adjacent Argentina and southeastern Brazil; it also occurs in the Lesser Antilles in Grenada and St. Lucia. [more]
Janusia
Jubelina
Jubistylis
Lasiocarpus
Lophanthera
Lophanthera is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Lophanthera comprises 5 species of shrubs and trees, all but one native to Amazonian South America; the exception (L. hammelii) is from Costa Rica. Lophanthera lactescens has become popular in recent decades as a cultivated ornamental in many warm regions of the Old and New World. It is propagated by cuttings and seeds. [more]
Lophopterys
Madagasikaria
Malacmaea
Malpighia
Small trees or shrubs with opposite leaves. Flowers bisexual, in axillary and terminal fascicles. Sepals 5, glandular. Petals clawed. Stamens long; filaments connate at the base. Ovary 3-locular; styles 3, free. Fruit a drupe.[1] [more]
Malpighiodes
Malpighiodes is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Malpighiodes comprises 4 species of woody vines native to northern South America. [more]
Malpigiantha
Mascagnia
Mascagnia is a genus of in family Malpighiaceae. [more]
Mcvaughia
Mcvaughia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Mcvaughia contains only one species, M. bahiana, a shrub occurring in open shrubby vegetation (caatinga) on sandy soils of lowland Bahia, Brazil. It is related to Burdachia and Glandonia. The genus was named in honor of the American taxonomist Rogers McVaugh (b. 1909). [more]
Meckelia
Mezia
Mezia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Mezia comprises 10 species of woody vines and lianas native to South America, with one species (M. includens) extending into Panama. [more]
Microsteira
Microsteria
Mionandra
Molina
Niedenzuella
Peixotoa
Peixotoa is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Peixotoa comprises 29 species of vines, shrubs, and subshrubs native to Brazil and adjacent Paraguay and Bolivia. [more]
Peregrina
Philgamia
Platynema
Pterandra
Pterandra is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Pterandra comprises 15 species of trees, shrubs, and subshrubs, all but two native to South America, principally Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil; the exceptions (G. mcphersonii, G. isthmica) are from Panama. [more]
Ptilochaeta
Ptilochaeta is a genus of in family Malpighiaceae. [more]
Rhinopterys
Rhinopteryx
Rhynchophora
Rhyssopteris
Rhyssopterys
Rosanthus
Rudolphia
Ryssopteris
Ryssopterys
Schwannia
Sipapoa
Skoliopteris
Spachea
Spachea is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Spachea comprises 6 species of shrubs and trees growing in wet forests. One species (S. martiana) occurs in Cuba, 2 species in southern Central America with one of those also in adjacent Colombia, and 3 species in northern South America (including Trinidad). Spachea correae, native to Costa Rica and Panama, is listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. [more]
Sphedamnocarpus
Stenocalyx
Stigmaphyllon
Stigmaphyllon is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Stigmaphyllon comprises 91 species of mostly twining woody vines or rarely shrubs native to the Neotropics from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, except Chile and the high Andes; 13 species occur in the West Indies. One species (S. bannisterioides) is also found in seashore vegetation along the Atlantic Coast from southern Mexico to northern Brazil, in the West Indies, and along the coast of western Africa (Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone). [more]
Stigmatophyllon
Succowia
Tetrapodenia
Tetrapteris
Tetrapterys
Tetraspis
Thryallis
Thryallis is a in the Malpighiaceae comprising 5 species of scandent shrubs and woody vines native to Brazil and adjacent Paraguay and Bolivia. [more]
Triaspis
Tricomaria
Tricomariopsis
Triopteris
Triopterys
Tristellateia
Tritomopterys
Verrucularia
Verrucularia is a in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Verrucularia comprises 2 species of shrubs native to savannas and sandstone hills of Brazil. [more]
Verrucularina
Zymum
More info about the Genus Zymum may be found here.
Footnotes
- "Malpighia". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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