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loganiaceae (dict)
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LoganiaceaeAntonia
Bonyunia
Gardneria
Geniostoma
Labordia
Mitrasacme
Mitreola
Neuburgia
Norrisia
Spigelia
Strychnos
Usteria
Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Gentianales. The family includes 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics. Earlier treatments of the family have included up to 29 genera. Some classification schemes, notably Takhtajan's, break the Loganiaceae as described here into as many as four families: Strychnaceae, Antoniaceae, Spigeliaceae and Loganiaceae. Recent DNA studies of the Gentianales have found strong support for Loganiaceae as a monophyletic clade containing 13 genera. References - Struwe, L., V. A. Albert, and B. Bremer 1994. Cladistics and family level classification of the Gentianales. Cladistics 10: 175205.
- Backlund, Maria, Bengt Oxelman, and Birgitta Bremer 2000. Phylogenetic relationships within the Gentianales based on NDHF and RBCL sequences, with particular reference to the Loganiaceae. American Journal of Botany. 87:1029-1043. http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/full/87/7/1029
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