English: Wild plane family.
Botany: 53 genera; 600 species; trees or shrubs, rarely herbs; subtropical to tropical; South America; evergreen petiolate leaves, sometimes leathery, simple and alternate, sometimes racemose, paniculate or more rarely pinnate; hermaphroditic.
Medusagynaceae: 1 species,
Medusagyne oppositifolia.
Quiinaceae: 4 genera: Froesia, Lacunaria, Quiina, Touroulia; 50 species; neotropical.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Ochnaceae is one of the Families in
Malpighiales. Quiinaceae and Medusagynaceae are closely related to
Ochnaceae and can be included in
OchnaceaeIn the
Plant theory Ochnaceae is treated in the same way and placed in
Subphase 5.
Subfamilies and TribesSubfamily Medusagynoideae: Medusagyne.
Subfamily Quiinoideaeclade: Froesia.
clade: Quiina, Touroulia, Lacunaria.
Subfamily OchnoideaeTestuleeae: Testulea.
Luxemburgieae (Formerly Luxemburgoideae): Luxemburgia, Philacra.
Ochneae
Lophirinae: Elvasia, Elvasiinae, Lophira, Perissocarpa.
Ochninae (Ochneae): Brackenridgea, Campylospermum, Idertia, Ochna, Ouratea, Rhabdophyllum.
Sauvagesieae: Adenarake, Blastemanthus, Cespedesia, Euthemis, Fleurydora, Godoya, Indosinia, Krukoviella,Neckia, Poecilandra, Rhytidanthera, Sauvagesia, Schuurmansia, Schuurmansiella, Tyleria, Wallacea.
LiteratureBissiengou, Pulcherie; Systematics, evolution and historical biogeography of the family
Ochnaceae with emphasis on the genus Campylospermum; Thesis at the University of Wageningen; ISBN 978-94-6257-222-5; 2014.