| Columelliaceae | |
|---|---|
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| Desfontainia spinosa[2] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Bruniales |
| Family: | Columelliaceae D.Don[1] |
| Genera | |
Columelliaceae is a family of trees and shrubs native to the Andes of South America.[3][4][5]
In the APG II taxonomy it is placed in the order Lamiales,[1] but a 2008 study suggested that the family is sister to the Bruniaceae,[6] and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website proposes incorporating this finding by placing both families in order Bruniales.[3] The APG III system of 2009 thus does place Columelliaceae in the Bruniales.
- ^ a b Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (4): 399–436. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x.
- ^ 1854 illustration from William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) - Curtis's botanical magazine vol. 80 ser. 3 nr. 10 tabl. 4781
- ^ a b Missouri Botanical Garden classification system
- ^ Don, David. 1828. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 6: 46-49 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
- ^ Tropicos, Columelliaceae D. Don
- ^ Winkworth, Richard C.; Lundberg, Johannes; Donoghue, Michael J. (2008). "Toward a resolution of Campanulid phylogeny, with special reference to the placement of Dipsacales". Taxon. 57 (1): 53–65.