Barbeuia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: |
Barbeuiaceae Nakai [1] |
Genus: |
Barbeuia Thouars |
Species: | B. madagascariensis
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Binomial name | |
Barbeuia madagascariensis |
Barbeuia madagascariensis is a liana found only on the island of Madagascar.
Barbeuia has occasionally been placed in its own family, Barbeuiaceae. The APG II system of 2003, for instance, recognizes such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots, after Philippe Cuénoud sequenced a fragment of the matK gene (extracted from a seed deposited in the Kew herbarium) and showed that Barbeuia does not belong in Phytolaccaceae. [2] This represents a change from the APG system, of 1998, which did not recognize Barbeuiaceae as a family, for lack of molecular data.