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Rapateaceae
Sign in to saveThe Rapateaceae are a family of flowering plants. The botanical name has been recognized by most taxonomists.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyRapateaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 142
- With media
- 23
- Family
- Rapateaceae
- Collections
- US, NY, INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA)
- Recorded in
- Venezuela, Peru, Guyana, Brazil, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Bromeliales
- Image
- Roraima Stegolepis guianensis.jpg
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- Category:Rapateaceae
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- Rapateaceae
- taxon name
- Rapateaceae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon common name
- 泽蔺花科
- has fruit type
- capsule
- taxonomic type
- Rapatea
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The Rapateaceae are a family of flowering plants. The botanical name has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The APG II system of 2003 also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. This represents a slight change from the APG system, 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but placed it in the same clade (although it used the spelling "commelinoids"). The family is divided into 16 genera with a total of about 94 known species, found in tropical South America and tropical west Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rapateaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.