Quillajaceae, the soapbark family, is a family of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s. It contains a single extant genus ''
Quillaja'', containing only two species,
and one fossil species, ''
Dakotanthus cordiformis''.
References
Rosid families
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