Taxonavigation

Familia: Petiveriaceae
Genera: Gallesia – Hilleria – Ledenbergia – Monococcus – Petiveria – Rivina – Schindleria – Seguieria – Trichostigma

Name

Petiveriaceae C.Agardh Aphor. Bot. 221. (1824)

• Type genus: Petiveria L. Sp. Pl. 1: 342. (1753)
  

Note: Petiveriaceae is recognised here as including its members in Phytolaccaceae renders that family non-monophyletic Stevens (2017) and APG (2016) c.f Hernández-Ledesma et al. (2015). Also see this reference and Meissner (1836-1843) for why Petiveriaceae C.Agardh (1824) has preference over Rivinaceae C.Agardh (1824).

References

• Agardh, C.A. 1824. Aphorismi Botanici 221.
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page. 
• Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Mering, S. v., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler R., Ocampo G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281–383. DOI: 10.3372/wi.45.45301 Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Petiveriaceae. Published online. Accessed: Apr.15 2016.
• Meissner C.F. 1836–1843: Plantarum Vascularium Genera 227. Lipsieae: Libraria Weidmannia.
• Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page. 

Vernacular names