
Sparrmanniaceae is a segregate, probably obsolete, plant family, containing plants which have more commonly been classified in
Malvaceae
Malvaceae (), or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include Theobroma cacao, cacao, Cola (plant), cola, cotton, okra, Hibiscus sabdariffa, ...
or
Tiliaceae
Tiliaceae () is a family of flowering plants. It is not a part of the APG, APG II and APG III classifications, being sunk in Malvaceae mostly as the subfamilies Tilioideae, Brownlowioideae and Grewioideae, but has an extensive historical re ...
.
In the most recent proposed circumscription, that of Cheek ex Heywood et al., it corresponds to subfamily
Grewioideae of the
APG family Malvaceae.
[Kubitzki & Bayer, Families and Genera of Vascular Plants V (2005)]
Genera formerly included in the Sparrmanniaceae:
* ''
Ancistrocarpus''
* ''
Apeiba''
* ''
Clappertonia''
* ''
Colona''
* ''
Corchorus''
* ''
Desplatsia''
* ''
Duboscia''
* ''
Eleutherostylis''
* ''
Entelea''
* ''
Erinocarpus''
* ''
Glyphaea''
* ''
Goethalsia''
* ''
Grewia
''Grewia'' is a large flowering plant genus in the mallow family (biology), family Malvaceae, in the expanded sense as proposed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. Formerly, ''Grewia'' was placed in either the family Tiliaceae or the Sparrmanni ...
''
* ''
Heliocarpus''
* ''
Hydrogaster''
* ''
Luehea''
* ''
Lueheopsis''
* ''
Microcos''
* ''
Mollia''
* ''
Pseudocorchorus''
* ''
Sparrmannia''
* ''
Tetralix''
* ''
Trichospermum''
* ''
Triumfetta''
* ''
Vasivaea''
* ''
Vinticena''
References
Grewioideae
Historically recognized angiosperm families
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