Rapateaceae
The Rapateaceae are a family of flowering plants. The botanical name has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The APG II system of 2003 also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots. This represents a slight change from the APG system, 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but placed it in the same clade (although it used the spelling "commelinoids"). The family is divided into 16 genera with a total of about 94 known species, found in tropical South America and tropical west Africa.
17 branches of this family, most-observed first
Rapatea
genusRapatea
Stegolepis
genusStegolepis
Guacamaya
genusGuacamaya
Spathanthus
genusSpathanthus
Saxofridericia
genusSaxofridericia
Schoenocephalium
genusSchoenocephalium
Cephalostemon
genusCephalostemon
Maschalocephalus
genusMaschalocephalus
Monotrema
genusMonotrema
Duckea
genusDuckea
Amphiphyllum
genusAmphiphyllum
Epidryos
genusEpidryos
Marahuacaea
genusMarahuacaea
Phelpsiella
genusPhelpsiella
Potarophytum
genusPotarophytum
Windsorina
genusWindsorina
Kunhardtia
genusKunhardtia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71609.