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Simmondsiaceae or the Jojoba Family is a family of flowering plants. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its Caryophyllales is an order of Flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations Amaranths Ice plants and most Phillippe Édouard Léon van Tieghem (1839-1914 was a French Botanist. The family is not recognized by all taxonomic systems, the single species, Simmondsia chinensis, often being treated as belonging to family Buxaceae. Jojoba ( Simmondsia chinensis) pronounced "hō- hō' -bə" is a Shrub native to the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts Buxaceae is a small family of four or five genera and about 90-120 species of Flowering plants They are Shrubs and small Trees with a
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recognize this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. Caryophyllales is an order of Flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations Amaranths Ice plants and most Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton (1991 to refer to a group of Flowering plants that had been called "tricolpates" or "non-Magnoliid It consist of a single species only, jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis), of North American shrubs. Jojoba ( Simmondsia chinensis) pronounced "hō- hō' -bə" is a Shrub native to the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts
The Cronquist system, 1981, had also recognized this family and placed it in order Euphorbiales. A system of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or Angiosperms) Euphorbiales is the Botanical name of an order of Flowering plants.
External links
- Simmondsiaceae in L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards).
- The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.
- Euphorbiales : an overview of the history
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
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