The Anacampserotaceae are a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

of plants proposed in the February 2010 issue of the journal ''

Taxon In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; : taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular name and ...

''. The family was described by Urs Eggli and Reto Nyffeler in their analysis of the

polyphyly A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as homoplasies, which ar ...

in the suborder Portulacineae (order

Caryophyllales Caryophyllales ( ) is a diverse and heterogeneous order of flowering plants with well-known members including cacti, carnations, beets, quinoa, spinach, amaranths, pigfaces and ice plants, oraches and saltbushes, goosefoots, sundews, Venu ...

). The new family and its circumscription was based on molecular and morphological data. The three recognized genera - '' Anacampseros'', '' Grahamia'', and '' Talinopsis'' - were formerly placed in the PortulacaceaeNyffeler, R., and U. Eggli. 2010. Disintegrating Portulacaceae: A new familial classification of the suborder Portulacineae (Caryophyllales) based on molecular and morphological data. ''Taxon'', 59(1): 227-240. and comprise a total of 36 known species. This family was accepted in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group's 2009 publication of the

APG III system The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a f ...

.Chase, M. W., and J. L. Reveal. 2009. A phylogenetic classification of the land plants to accompany APG III. ''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'', 161(2): 122–127.

References

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