Platanaceae
Sign in to savePlatanaceae, the plane family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Proteales. The family consists of only a single extant genus Platanus, with twelve known species. The plants are tall trees, native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The hybrid London plane is widely planted in cities worldwide.
Taxonomy · GBIF
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderProteales
- FamilyPlatanaceae
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- Ecology
- Phytochemistry
- Cultivation
- Fossils
- Systematic position
- Taxa included
- Hybrids
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Platanaceae, the plane family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Proteales. The family consists of only a single extant genus Platanus, with twelve known species. The plants are tall trees, native to temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The hybrid London plane is widely planted in cities worldwide.
thumb|right|49-million-year-old fossil Macginitiea|Macginitiea gracilis from the [[Klondike Mountain Formation, Washington]]