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Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae
Translingual
Proper noun
Malpighiaceae
- A taxonomic family within the order Malpighiales – tropical plants, mostly of the New World, that, notably, provide pollinators with rewards other than pollen or nectar, commonly in the form of nutrient oils.
Hypernyms
- (order): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order
Hyponyms
- (order): Byrsonimoideae; Malpighioideae - subfamilies
- Acmanthera, Acridocarpus, Adelphia, Amorimia, Aspicarpa, Aspidopterys, Banisteriopsis, Barnebya, Blepharandra, Brachylophon, Bronwenia, Bunchosia, Burdachia, Byrsonima, Callaeum, Calyptostylis, Camarea, Caucanthus, Clonodia, Coleostachys, Cordobia, Cottsia, Diacidia, Dicella, Digoniopterys, Dinemagonum, Dinemandra, Diplopterys, Echinopterys, Ectopopterys, Flabellaria, Flabellariopsis, Gallardoa, Galphimia, Gaudichaudia, Glandonia, Heladena, Henleophytum, Heteropterys, Hiptage, Hiraea, Janusia, Jubelina, Lasiocarpus, Lophanthera, Lophopterys, Malpighia, Malpighiodes, Mascagnia, Mcvaughia, Mezia, Microsteira, Mionandra, Peixotoa, Peregrina, Philgamia, Pterandra, Ptilochaeta, Rhynchophora, Rhyssopteris, Spachea, Sphedamnocarpus, Stigmaphyllon, Tetrapterys, Thryallis, Triaspis, Tricomaria, Triopterys, Tristellateia, Verrucularia - families