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| Acoraceae | |
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| from Koehler (1887) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae, monocots |
| Order: | Acorales |
| Family: | Acoraceae Martynov (1820) |
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Acoraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists: it is sometimes called the "sweet-flag family".
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), does recognize this family, and gives it its own order Acorales, in the clade monocots. The family counts a single genus, Acorus with only a few species in all, perhaps no more than two.
This is a departure from the Cronquist system which had assigned the genus to the family Araceae, in order Arales, in subclass Arecidae, in class Liliopsida .
External links :
- Acoraceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards) The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 27th April 2006. http://delta-intkey.com.
- Monocot families (USDA)
- Acorus in the Flora of North America
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL, Texas