ASTEROPEIACEAE

'Asteropeiaceae' is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by very few taxonomists.
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998) does recognize such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family exists of a single genus only: ''Asteropeia'', found in Madagascar.
According to the AP-Website it forms a clade together with the family Physenaceae (also of Madagascar).

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External links

★ Asteropeiaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards).

★ The families of flowering plants descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 30st May 2006.

★ links at CSDL

★ NCBI Taxonomy Browser

★ photographs of ''Asteropeia'' (Missouri Botanic Garden)