Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCornales
- FamilyLoasaceae
Observations recorded117,780
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 323
- With media
- 55
- Family
- Loasaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, IGL-UNAM, UNM, MEL, BRIT
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Germany, Peru
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Loasaceae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Loasaceae
- topic's main category
- Category:Loasaceae
- taxonomic type
- Loasa
- taxon common name
- 刺莲花科
- Montana Plant Life URL
- montana.plant-life.org/cgi-bin/family03.cgi?Loasaceae
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- References
- External links
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Loasaceae is a family of 15–20 genera and about 200–260 species of flowering plants in the order Cornales, native to the Americas and Africa. Members of the family include annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants, and a few shrubs and small trees. Members of the subfamily Loasoideae are known to exhibit rapid thigmonastic stamen movement when pollinators are present.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loasaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.