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|image = Myrothamnaceae Myrothamnus flabellifolia.png
 
|image_caption = ''M. flabellifolia''<ref>''Myrothamnus flabellifolia'', illustration from Vegetation der Erde (1915) v. 9 Band III, Heft 1. Fig. 187. by Adolf Engler (1844-1930)</ref>
 
|parent_authority = [[Franz Josef Niedenz|Nied.]]<ref name=APGIII2009/>
 
|taxon = Myrothamnus
 
|authority = [[Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch|Welw.]]
 
|subdivision_ranks = Species
 
|subdivision = * ''[[Myrothamnus flabellifolius]]''
 
* ''[[Myrothamnus moschata]]''
 
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[[File:Myrothamnus flabellifolius Myrothamanaceae.jpg|thumb]]
 
 
 
'''''Myrothamnus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plants]], consisting of two species<ref name="Christenhusz-Byng2016">{{cite journal |author1=Christenhusz, M. J. M. |author2=Byng, J. W.  |lastauthoramp=yes | year = 2016 | title = The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase | journal = Phytotaxa | volume = 261 | pages = 201–217 | url = http://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/download/phytotaxa.261.3.1/20598 | doi = 10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1 | issue = 3 | publisher = Magnolia Press }}</ref> of small [[xerophytic]]  [[shrub]]s, in the southern parts of tropical [[Africa]] and in [[Madagascar]]. ''Myrothamnus'' is recognized as the only genus in the family '''Myrothamnaceae'''.
 
 
 
Myrothamnaceae was included in order [[Hamamelidales]] in the [[Cronquist system]].<ref>{{cite book
 
| last = Cronquist
 
| first = Arthur
 
| authorlink = Arthur Cronquist
 
| title = An integrated system of classification of flowering plants
 
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EB6qflbmcrwC
 
| publisher = [[Columbia University Press]]
 
| year = 1981
 
| isbn = 9780231038805
 
}}</ref>  Molecular systematic studies have suggested that ''Myrothamnus'' is not closely related to [[Hamamelidaceae]] nor any other family included in that order, but rather is closely related to ''[[Gunnera]]''. In the [[APG II system]] (2003) the genus is assigned to family [[Gunneraceae]] or to the optionally recognized segregate family Myrothamnaceae.<ref>{{cite journal
 
| author = THE ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENY GROUP
 
| authorlink = Angiosperm_Phylogeny_Group
 
| title = An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II
 
| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
 
| volume = 141
 
| issue = 4
 
| pages = 399–436
 
| date = April 2003
 
| url = http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x/abstract
 
| doi = 10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x
 
}}</ref>  In the [[APG III system]] (2009) and [[APG IV system]] (2016) the narrower circumscription is preferred, and these two families are considered distinct<ref name=APGIII2009>
 
{{cite journal
 
| author = THE ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENY GROUP
 
| authorlink = Angiosperm_Phylogeny_Group
 
| title = An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III
 
| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
 
| volume = 161
 
| issue = 2
 
| pages = 105–121
 
| date = October 29, 2009
 
| url = http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract
 
| doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x
 
}}</ref><ref name=APGIV2016>{{Cite journal|authors=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group|authorlink=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group|year=2016|title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV|journal=[[Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society]]|volume=181|issue=1|pages=1–20|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/boj.12385/epdf|format=PDF|issn=00244074|doi=10.1111/boj.12385}}</ref>
 
 
 
== Species ==
 
 
 
# ''[[Myrothamnus flabellifolius]]'' <small>Welw.</small> - Angola, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
 
# ''[[Myrothamnus moschata]]'' <small>(Baill.) Baill.</small> - Madagascar
 
 
 
== References ==
 
 
 
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==External links==
 
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* [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=83222&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
 
*[http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/gunneralesweb.htm#Myrothamnaceae Myrothamnaceae] in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb Angiosperm Phylogeny Website]. Version 7, May 2006.
 
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/myrotham.htm Myrothamnaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). ''[http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ The families of flowering plants]: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.'' Version: 21 May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
 
* [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Myrothamnaceae links at CSDL]
 
 
 
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[[Category:Gunnerales]]
 
[[Category:Eudicot genera]]
 

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