Everything about Aceraceae totally explained
Aceraceae is a family of
flowering plants also called the
Maple Family. It contains two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120
species of
trees and
shrubs. A common characteristic is that the leaves are
opposite, and the fruit a
schizocarp.
The maples have long been known to be closely related to the family
Sapindaceae. Several
taxonomists (including the
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) now include both the Aceraceae and the
Hippocastanaceae in the Sapindaceae. Recent research (Harrington et al. 2005) has shown that while both Aceraceae and Hippocastanaceae are monophyletic in themselves, their removal from Sapindaceae
sensu lato would leave Sapindaceae
sensu stricto as a
paraphyletic group, particularly with reference to the genus
Xanthoceras.
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