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Corsiaceae

{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}}

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|image = CorsiaSpec1-(jha2).jpg

|image_caption = Corsia spp.

|taxon = Corsiaceae

|authority = Becc.{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |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 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

|subdivision = See text

|type_genus = Corsia

|type_genus_authority = Becc.

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Corsiaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system (2003) treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. This is a slight change from the APG system, of 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but did assign it also to the monocots.

Taxonomy

The family is usually taken to include three genera, Corsia, Corsiopsis, and Arachnitis with a total of 27 known species.{{cite journal |author1=Christenhusz, M. J. M. |author2=Byng, J. W. | 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 | doi-access = free }} As the members of this family are achlorophyllous non-autotrophic herbs (i.e. they are not green, and do not photosynthesize) they have sometimes been included in the family Burmanniaceae which, however, according to APG II is not even in the same order. The [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html APG companion site] cites a reference which suggests the family should consist of Corsia only, with Arachnitis better placed nearer to family Burmanniaceae. Corsiopsis, like Arachnitis a monotypic genus, has been described recently.

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File:CorsiaOrnata.jpg, Bird's Head Peninsula, Indonesia]]

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite journal| doi = 10.1080/0028825X.2003.9512828|author1=Neyland, R. |author2=M. Hennigan|year =2003| title = A phylogeny inferred from large-subunit (26S) ribosome DNA sequences suggests that the Corsiaceae are polyphyletic|journal = New Zealand J. Bot.|volume = 41| pages = 1–11|s2cid=84392170 |doi-access = free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Ibisch|first1=Pierre L.|last2=Neinhuis|first2=Christoph|last3=Rojas|first3=N Patricia|title=On the Biology, Biogeography, and Taxonomy of Arachnitis Phil. nom. cons. (Corsiaceae) in Respect to a New Record from Bolivia|journal=Willdenowia|date=29 November 1996|volume=26|issue=1/2|pages=321–332|jstor=3997251|doi=10.3372/wi.26.2616|doi-access=free}}
  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Merckx |editor1-first=Vincent |title=Mycoheterotrophy: the biology of plants living on fungi |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-5209-6|date=2013 |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4614-5208-9|last1= Merckx|first1=Vincent S. F. T.|last2=Freudenstein|first2=John V. |last3=Kissling|first3=Jonathan |display-authors=etal|chapter=Taxonomy and Classification|pages=19–101|doi=10.1007/978-1-4614-5209-6 |s2cid=259078590 |ref={{harvid|Merckx et al|2013}}}}

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External links

  • [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Corsiaceae links at CSDL, Texas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012212711/http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Corsiaceae |date=2008-10-12 }}
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Category:Liliales families

Category:Parasitic plants

Category:Taxa named by Odoardo Beccari