Flacourtiaceae
{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}}
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The Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various families, mostly to the Achariaceae and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became a dumping ground for odd and anomalous genera, gradually making the family even more heterogeneous.{{cite journal |doi=10.2307/4110825 |first=Mark W. |last=Chase |author2=Sue Zmarzty |author3=M. Dolores Lledó |author4=Kenneth J. Wurdack |author5=Susan M. Swensen |author6= Michael F. Fay |year=2002 |title=When in doubt, put it in Flacourtiaceae: a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on plastid rbcL DNA sequences |jstor=4110825 |journal=Kew Bulletin |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=141–181}} In 1975, Hermann Sleumer noted that "Flacourtiaceae as a family is a fiction; only the tribes are homogeneous."{{cite journal |first=Regis B. |last=Miller |year=1975 |title=Systematic anatomy of the xylem and comments on the relationships of Flacourtiaceae |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |volume=56 |issue=1 |page=79|doi=10.5962/p.185846 |s2cid=108459529 |doi-access=free }}
In Cronquist's classification, the Flacourtiaceae included 79–89 genera and 800–1000 species.{{cite journal |last1=Lemke |first1=David |title=A synopsis of Flacourtiaceae |journal=Aliso |date=1988 |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=29–43 |doi=10.5642/aliso.19881201.05 |s2cid=87472599 |url=http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1178&context=aliso |access-date=11 July 2018|doi-access=free }} Of these, many, including the type genus Flacourtia, have now been transferred to the Salicaceae in the molecular phylogeny-based classification, known as the APG IV system, established by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. In the list below, the Salicaceae are circumscribed broadly. Some taxonomists further divide the Salicaceae sensu lato into three families: Salicaceae sensu stricto, Scyphostegiaceae, and Samydaceae,{{cite journal |doi=10.3732/ajb.0800207 |first=Kenneth J. |last=Wurdack |author2=Charles C. Davis |year=2009 |title=Malpighiales phylogenetics: Gaining ground on one of the most recalcitrant clades in the angiosperm tree of life |journal= American Journal of Botany |volume=96 |issue=8 |pages=1551–1570 |pmid=21628300|s2cid=23284896 }} or into three subfamilies.
;Genera formerly included in the Flacourtiaceae (current family, and subfamily for Salicaceae, in brackets):
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