Humiriaceae

{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Eocene|recent|Eocene - recent|ref={{Cite journal |last=Herrera |first=Fabiany |last2=Manchester |first2=Steven R. |last3=Jaramillo |first3=Carlos |last4=MacFadden |first4=Bruce |last5=da Silva‐Caminha |first5=Silane A. |date=January 2010 |title=Phytogeographic History and Phylogeny of the Humiriaceae |url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/651229 |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |language=en |volume=171 |issue=4 |pages=392–408 |doi=10.1086/651229 |issn=1058-5893|url-access=subscription }}}}

| image = Vantanea guianensis.jpg

| image_caption = Vantanea guianensis

| taxon = Humiriaceae

| authority = A.Juss.{{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 |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x/pdf | format= PDF |access-date=2013-07-06 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = *Duckesia

• Endopleura
• Humiria (Houmiria)
• Humiriastrum
• Hylocarpa
• Sacoglottis
• Schistostemon
• Vantanea

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Humiriaceae (or, alternatively Houmiriaceae Juss.) is a family of evergreen flowering plants. It comprises 8 genera and 56 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 }} The family is exclusively Neotropical, except one species found in tropical West Africa.{{Cite journal |last=Herrera |first=Fabiany |last2=Manchester |first2=Steven R. |last3=Vélez-Juarbe |first3=Jorge |last4=Jaramillo |first4=Carlos |date=September 2014 |title=Phytogeographic History of the Humiriaceae (Part 2) |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/676818 |journal=International Journal of Plant Sciences |language=en |volume=175 |issue=7 |pages=828–840 |doi=10.1086/676818 |issn=1058-5893|url-access=subscription }}