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Primulaceae

(Family)

Overview

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Primulaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 24 genera, including some favorite garden plants and wildflowers. It is also known as the primrose family.

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Genera included in Myrsinaceae

The following genera, traditionally included in Primulaceae, should, according to K?llersj? et al. (2000), belong to the f amily Myrsinaceae:

b>Primulaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 24 genera, including some favorite garden plants and wildflowers. It is also known as the primrose family.

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Genera included in Myrsinaceae

The following genera, traditionally included in Primulaceae, should, according to K?llersj? et al. (2000), belong to the family Myrsinaceae:

References

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K?llersj?, M., G. Bergqvist & A. A. Anderberg. 2000. Generic realignment in primuloid families of the Ericales s. l.: a phylogenetic analysis based on DNA sequences from three chloroplast genes and morphology. Amer. J. Bot. 87: 1325?1341.

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Taxonomy

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The Family Primulaceae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Aegiceras

Aegiceras is a genus of trees and shrubs from Southeast Asia, Malesia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. They occur in coastal or estuarine areas. [more]

Aleuritia

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Alsinanthemos

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Alsinanthemum

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Alus

Alus or ALUS may refer to: [more]

Amadea

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Anagalis

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Anagallidastrum

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Anagallis

Anagallis is a genus of about 20?25 species of flowering plants in the myrsine family Myrsinaceae, commonly called pimpernel and perhaps best known for the Scarlet pimpernel referred to in literature. The botanical name is from the Greek, ana, "again", and agallein, "to delight in", and refers to the opening and closing of the flowers in response to environmental conditions. [more]

Anagzanthe

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Androsace

Androsace is the second largest genus in the Primulaceae. It is a predominantly Arctic-alpine genus with many species in the Himalayas (where the genus originated), the mountains of central Asia, the Caucasus, and the southern and central European mountain systems, particularly the Alps and the Pyrenees. [more]

Apochoris

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Ardisia

Ardisia (Coralberry or Marlberry) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrsinaceae (Myrsine family), native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, Asia, and Australasia. The genus includes about 250 species of small trees, shrubs and subshrubs growing up to 8 metres (26 ft) tall. [more]

Ardisiandra

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Aretia

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Asterolinon

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Asterolinum

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Astrolinon

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Auganthus

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Auricula-Ursi

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Bernardina

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Bonellia

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Borissa

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Breviglandium

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Bryocarpum

Herbs perennial. Leaves basal, petiolate. Flowers terminal, solitary, without bracts. Calyx 7-lobed to base; lobes lanceolate. Corolla yellow, infundibular-campanulate, exannulate, 7-lobed to middle; lobes linear, 2-lobed. Stamens 7, inserted toward apex of corolla tube; filaments very short; anthers oblong, apex acuminate. Ovary oblong, apex gradually narrowed into slender style; stigma capitate. Capsule cylindric, many seeded, dehiscing by a lid at apex.[1] [more]

Cankrienia

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Carolinella

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Centunculus

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Clavija

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Coris

Coris is a genus of wrasses in the family Labridae. [more]

Cortusa

Herbs perennial. Leaves basal, long petiolate, cordate-orbicular, palmately lobed; lobes dentate to incised. Inflorescences scapose, umbellate, with bracts. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx deeply parted; lobes lanceolate, persistent. Corolla tube short; limb infundibuliform, parted to 1/2 or below. Stamens included, attached at base of corolla; filaments dilated, connate basally into a ring; anthers apiculate. Ovary ovoid; style filiform, exserted; stigma small, capitate. Capsule ovoid to subcylindric, dehiscing by 5 short valves. Seeds numerous, compressed-globose.[2] [more]

Cybianthus

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Cyclamen

Cyclamen (US:  SY-kl?-men, UK: /'s?kl?m?n/ SIK-l?-men) is a genus of 23 species of perennials growing from tubers, valued for their flowers with upswept petals and variably patterned leaves. Cyclamen species are native from Europe and the Mediterranean region east to Iran, with one species in Somalia. [more]

Cyclaminos

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Cyclaminum

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Cyclaminus

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Deherainia

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Dionysia

Caespitose, cushion or dense tufted semishrubs, scapose or escapose. Branches covered with the persistent remains of the leaves. Leaves imbricate, simple, revolute or involute, entire or denticulate, farinose or efarinose (farina whitish or yellow), often glandular-stipitate. Flowers 5-merous, heterostylous, yellow, pink or violet, umbellate or in superposed verticels or solitary. Bracts small, large and foliaceous in the scapose species. Calyx 1/2 to 2/3 rd-partite. Corolla much exceeding the calyx, tubular; limb 5-lobed, entire or slightly 2-lobed. Stamens epipetalous, sub-sessile; filaments attached near the middle (in pin-eyed flowers) or near the throat. Ovules few. Style slender, stigma capitate. Capsule dehiscing by 5 valves. Seeds small, angled, minutely vesiculose, up to 35 in number.[3] [more]

Discocalyx

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Dodecatheon

Dodecatheon is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the Primrose family Primulaceae. The species have basal clumps of leaves and nodding flowers that are produced at the top of tall stems that rise from where the leaves join the crown. They are commonly called Shooting Stars because of the flower shape. The genus is largely confined to North America, and part of northeastern Siberia. Common names also include, American Cowslip, Mosquito Bills, Mad Violets, and Sailor-caps. A few species are grown in gardens for their showy and unique flower display. [more]

Douglasia

Androsace is the second largest genus in the Primulaceae. It is a predominantly Arctic-alpine genus with many species in the Himalayas (where the genus originated), the mountains of central Asia, the Caucasus, and the southern and central European mountain systems, particularly the Alps and the Pyrenees. [more]

Drosace

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Dugezia

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Embelia

Shrubs, becoming lianous at maturity, or lianas. Leaves alternate, distichous, or pseudoverticillate. Inflorescences racemose, paniculate, umbellate or corymbose, bracteate at base. Pedicel subtended by one persistent floral bract. Flowers 4- or 5-merous, bisexual or functionally unisexual and plants dioecious, polygamous, or monoecious. Sepals united at base. Petals free or united at base, glandular granulose inside and often along margin. Stamens adnate to base of petals, rarely free, normally exserted in staminate flowers, reduced in pistillate ones; filaments free; anthers dehiscing longitudinally, connectives usually punctate abaxially. Pistillode reduced and style included in staminate flowers; ovary globose or ovoid; ovules ca. 4, uniseriate. Style exserted; stigma discoid or capitate, sometimes slightly lobed. Fruit drupes, prominently punctate, 1-seeded; endocarp crusty or rarely bony. Seeds subglobose, covered by membranous remnants of placenta; endosperm ruminate; embryo terete, transverse.[4] [more]

Euparea

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Evotrochis

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Exinia

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Geissanthus

Geissanthus is a genus of in family Myrsinaceae. [more]

Gingidia

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Glaucoides

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Glaux

Sea milkwort, Sea milkweed, or black saltwort (Glaux maritima) (2n=20) is a plant of the family Myrsinaceae (formerly Primulaceae). It grows in coastal habitats, in both wet ground and water, and is a native to Europe and North America. The genus Glaux is monotypic and differs from all other genera of the former Primulaceae in having apetalous flowers with a pink, petaloid calyx. It is generally pentamerous both in the calyx and the seed capsule. [more]

Gregoria

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Grevellia

Hakonechloa

Hakonechloa is a genus of grasses of the Arundinoideae. [more]

Hottonia

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Isodon

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[5] [more]

Jacquinia

Jacquinia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Theophrastaceae, native to Central America and the Caribbean. [more]

Jirasekia

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Kablikia

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Kaufmannia

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Lerouxia

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Loxostemon

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Lubinia

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Lysimachia

Lysimachia () is a genus of flowering plants traditionally classified in the family Primulaceae. According to a molecular phylogenetic study it belongs in the family Myrsinaceae . [more]

Lysimachiopsis

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Lysimachusa

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Lysis

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Macrosyphonia

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Macrotybus

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Maesa

Maesa is a genus of plant in family Myrsinaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Meadia

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Myrsine

Myrsine is a genus of flowering plants, the nominate genus of the family Myrsinaceae. It is found nearly worldwide, primarily in tropical and subtropical areas. It contains about 200 species, including several notable radiations, such as the matipo of New Zealand and the kolea of Hawai?i (the New Zealand "black matipo", Pittosporum tenuifolium, is not related to Myrsine). In the United States, members of this genus are known as colicwood. Some species, especially M. africana, are grown as ornamental shrubs. [more]

Naumburgia

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Neomezia

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Nicropyxis

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Nummularia

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Omphalogramma

Herbs perennial, with stout woody rhizomes. Leaves basal, petiolate, usually minutely brown punctate. Scapes solitary in each rosette, without bracts. Flowers terminal, solitary. Calyx 5--7-lobed to base; lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla infundibuliform, rarely campanulate to salverform, slightly zygomorphic, 5--7-lobed; lobes entire, emarginate or dentate at margin. Stamens 5--7, inserted on corolla tube; filaments glabrous or pubescent; anthers oblong to ovate, apex obtuse. Ovary ovoid, superior. Capsule oblong to cylindric, dehiscing by short valves.[6] [more]

Oncostemum

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Orescia

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Oscaria

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Palladia

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Parathesis

Parathesis is a genus of in family Myrsinaceae. [more]

Pelletiera

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Pomatosace

Herbs annual or biennial. Leaves basal, pinnatifid. Scapes with umbels. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, enlarging in fruit. Corolla salverform, slightly shorter than calyx, constricted and annulate at throat; limb 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted at upper 1/3 of corolla tube; filaments very short; anthers ovate, apex obtuse. Ovary depressed globose; style shorter than ovary; stigma capitate. Capsule subglobose, circumscissile.[7] [more]

Primula

Primula is a genus of 400-500 species of low-growing herbs in the family Primulaceae. They include primrose, auricula, cowslip and oxlip. Many species are grown for their ornamental flowers. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, south into high altitude tropical mountains in Ethiopia, Indonesia and New Guinea, and are also found in temperate southern South America. [more]

Primulidium

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Rapanea

Rapanea is a genus of in family Myrsinaceae. [more]

Rracenia

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Salomus

Samodia

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Samolus

Samolus (Brookweed, or water pimpernel) is a widely distributed genus of about a dozen species of water-loving herbs. According to the APG III classification, this genus belongs to the Primulaceae family in the order Ericales. It was considered as closely related to a clade comprising the Theophrastaceae, and was treated as part of that family or in its own monogeneric family, the Samolaceae. The APG III system does not recognize these families and instead includes all species formerly belonging to Theophrastaceae in the Primulaceae family. [more]

Sasamorpha

Bamboo is a group of woody perennial evergreen (except for certain temperate species) plants in the true grass family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae, tribe Bambuseae. Some of its members are giant bamboo, forming by far the largest members of the grass family. Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. Their growth rate (up to 1.2 meters/day (1.5-2.0 inches/hr)) is due to a unique rhizome-dependent system, but is highly dependent on local soil and climate conditions. [more]

Sheffieldia

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Soldanella

The genus Soldanella, commonly known in as snowbell, includes about 15 species in the flowering plant family Primulaceae, native to European mountains, from the Pyrenees, the Apennines, the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkans. They grow in woods, damp pastures and rocky landscapes from 500-3,000 m above sea level, usually in hollows which hold snow long into the summer. [more]

Sredinskya

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Steironema

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Stimpsonia

Herbs annual. Stems erect to ascending. Basal leaves forming a rosette, petiolate. Stem leaves alternate, short petiolate or sessile. Flowers solitary, in axils of upper leaves, 5-merous. Calyx parted nearly to base; lobes linear-oblong, slightly enlarging with age. Corolla white or pink, salverform; tube slightly longer than calyx, not constricted at throat; lobes imbricate in bud. Stamens included, adnate to middle of corolla tube; filaments very short; anthers subovoid, apex obtuse. Ovary globose; style short. Capsule subglobose, dehiscing by 5 valves.[8] [more]

Stylogyne

Stylogyne is a genus of in family Myrsinaceae. [more]

Tapeinosperma

Tapeinosperma is a genus of in family Myrsinaceae. [more]

Theophrasta

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Thyrsanthus

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Trientalis

Trientalis is a small genus of flowering plants containing three species known as starflowers or wintergreens. These plants have the unusual trait of sometimes bearing flower parts in sevens. They may also come in fives and sixes. The roots are tuber-like. They are native to North America and northern Eurasia. Trientalis is Latin for "one third of a foot", which is the approximate height of the plant. [more]

Vincetoxicum

Vincetoxicum is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]

Vitaliana

Androsace is the second largest genus in the Primulaceae. It is a predominantly Arctic-alpine genus with many species in the Himalayas (where the genus originated), the mountains of central Asia, the Caucasus, and the southern and central European mountain systems, particularly the Alps and the Pyrenees. [more]

Vroedea

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Wallenia

Wallenia is a genus of in family Myrsinaceae. [more]

At least 38 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Wallenia.

More info about the Genus Wallenia may be found here.

References

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K?llersj?, M., G. Bergqvist & A. A. Anderberg. 2000. Generic realignment in primuloid families of the Ericales s. l.: a phylogenetic analysis based on DNA sequences from three chloroplast genes and morphology. Amer. J. Bot. 87: 1325?1341.

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Bibliography

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Footnotes

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  1. "Bryocarpum". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 188. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  2. "Cortusa". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 79. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  3. "Dionysia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 33.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  4. "Embelia". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 29. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  5. http://www.ubio.org/browser/details.php?namebankID=113831
  6. "Omphalogramma". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 185. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  7. "Pomatosace". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 188. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  8. "Stimpsonia". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 80. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
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