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Nyctaginaceae

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thumb|Bougainvillea glabra Nyctaginaceae, the '''four o'clock family''', is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. The family has a distinctive fruit type called an accessory fruit or anthocarp, and many genera have extremely large (>100 μm) pollen grains.

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Nyctaginaceae is a family of plants within the kingdom Plantae. It is classified under the phylum Tracheophyta, class Magnoliopsida, and order Caryophyllales. The taxon was described by de Jussieu in 1789 and holds an accepted status in taxonomic records.

The family has been documented in various biological databases. Occurrence records number 400,864, while 413 related publications are indexed in PubMed. Additional records from iDigBio include 2,014 entries and 669 media files, with collections held by institutions in Mexico and the United States.

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Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderCaryophyllales
  5. FamilyNyctaginaceae
Observations recorded400,864

General: The Nyctaginaceae are important only as ornamentals Appearance: Key differences from similar families: Nyctaginaceae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,014
With media
669
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Collections
CICY, STDOM, FC-UNAM, DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, IEA-UAT, IBUNAM
Recorded in
Mexico, United States

Research

413 papers

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Image
Bougainvillea glabra.JPG
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Category:Nyctaginaceae
Commons category
Nyctaginaceae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Nyctaginaceae
taxon common name
紫茉莉科
has fruit type
berry
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
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  • Uses
  • References
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thumb|Bougainvillea glabra Nyctaginaceae, the '''four o'clock family', is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. The family has a distinctive fruit type called an accessory fruit or anthocarp, and many genera have extremely large (>100 μm) pollen grains.

The family has been almost universally recognized by plant taxonomists. The APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998), assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nyctaginaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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