Honey plants ( Latin Melianthaceae ) - a family of flowering plants of the order geranium . The APG II system includes this family in the rosida treasure . All representatives, as a rule, are trees and shrubs growing in tropical and southern Africa . Often referred to as the honey family, the Francoev family, consisting of two monotypic genera, common in Chile .
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 Honey honey ( Melianthus comosus ) | |||||||||||||||||
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Melianthaceae Bercht. & J.Presl | |||||||||||||||||
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Melianthus L. - Honey Cake | |||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy
The family classification is as follows:
- Bersama
- Bersama abyssinica
- Bersama swynnertonii
- Greyia
- Greyia flanagani
- Greyia radlkoferi
- Greyia sutherlandii
- Melianthus
- Melianthus comosus
- Melianthus major
- Melianthus pectinatus
Greyia radlkoferi
Honey honey ( Melianthus major )
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
Literature
- Zamyatnin B.N. Sem. 55. Honey plants - Melianthaceae L. // Trees and shrubs of the USSR. Wild, cultivated and promising for introduction. / Ed. volumes S. Ya. Sokolov . - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1958. - T. IV. Angiosperms. Legumes - Pomegranates. - S. 524-526. - 976 p. - 2500 copies.