Clades:
Boraginales;
Lamiidae;
Asteranae;
Angiospermae;
Plants.
Plant theory 2Ehretiaceae is treated as a family in
Boraginales and placed in
Subphase 6. The clades Heliotropioideae and Cordiodeae are included in
Ehretiaceae.
Plant theory 1Ehretiaceae was treated as a family in
Boraginales and placed in
Subphase 6. Heliotropioideae and Cordiodeae were excluded from
Ehretiaceae.
Cordiaceae was placed in
Subphase 5 and
Heliotropiaceae was in
Subphase 4.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Ehretiaceae is treated as Subfamily Ehretioideae of
Boraginaceae, the only family in the Order
Boraginales. The
Apg4 classification does the same.
The genus Cordia has been analysed. Cordia can be split in 4 subgenera:
Varronia, type Cordia varronia.
Collococcus, type
Cordia collococca, with Pilicordia, Physoclada, Superbiflorae.
Myxa subclade, type
Cordia myxa.
Sebestena, type
Cordia sebestena, including Gerascanthus, Rhabdocalyx, Auxemma, Patagonula, and Saccellium.
GeneraHeliotropioideae: Heliotropium, Tournefortia.
Cordioideae: Helio, Cordia, Saccellium
Ehretioideae: Bourreria, including Hilsenbergia, Cortesia, Ehretia, including Carmona and Rotula, Halgania, Lepidocordia, Menais, Patagonula, Rochefortia, Tiquilia, Americas
BotanyCordioideae
Trees or shrubs; woody.
Flower: style terminal, 2 forked.
Fruit: drupe with one quadrilocular or four unilocular pyrenes.
EhretioideaeTrees, shrubs, climbers, rarely herbs.
Flower: style terminal, simply forked or 2 styles.
Fruit: drupe, with 2 bilocular or rarely 4 unilocular pyrenes.
HeliotropioideaeTrees, shrubs, subshrubs, climbers, perennial or annual herbs.
Flower: style terminal, surrounded by the annuliform stigma,entire or forked.
Fruit: with a fleshy rarely a spongy pericarp and two bilocular or four unilocular pyrenes or hard, usually breaking up into four unilocul arnutlets, rarely into two mericarps or not at all.