Sterculioideae
{{Short description|Subfamily of trees and shrubs}}
{{automatic taxobox
| image = Sterculia foetida (2334259875).jpg
| image_caption = Sterculia foetida
| taxon = Sterculioideae
| authority = Beilschm.
| type_genus = Sterculia
| type_genus_authority = L.
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See below
| synonyms = * {{extinct}}Florissantoideae
- Coloideae
}}
Sterculioideae is a subfamily of the family Malvaceae{{cite web | url = http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/APweb/orders/malvalesweb.htm#Malvales | title = Angiosperm Phylogeny Website - Malvales | publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden}}{{cite web | url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/gnlist.pl?1755 | title = GRIN Taxonomy for Plants - Genera of Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae | publisher = United States Department of Agriculture}} containing evergreen and deciduous tree and shrub genera, that were previously placed in the obsolete family Sterculiaceae.
Taxonomy
A 2006 molecular study indicated the Sterculioideae was most likely to be a monophyletic group, and that it had four major clades within it. However, the relationships between the clades were not resolved.{{cite journal | title=Phylogenetic Relationships within the Subfamily Sterculioideae (Malvaceae/Sterculiaceae-Sterculieae) Using the Chloroplast Gene ndhF |author1=Wilkie, Peter |author2=Clark, Alexandra |author3=Pennington, R. Toby |author4=Cheek, Martin |author5=Bayer, Clemens |author6=Wilcock, Chris C. | journal=Systematic Botany |year=2006|volume=31|issue=1 |pages=160–70 |doi=10.1600/036364406775971714}}
The clades consist of:
- a Cola clade, with the genera Cola and Octolobus of Africa and Pterygota of Africa, South America and southeast Asia forming a subclade, Hildegardia and Firmiana forming a second and Scaphium and Pterocymbium a third.
- Heritiera clade comprising the genus Heritiera
- Sterculia clade comprising the large genus Sterculia of Australasia and Asia.
- Brachychiton clade of Australasian and New Caledonian species, including Brachychiton, Acropogon, Argyrodendron and Franciscodendron.
=List of genera=
- Acropogon {{Au|Schltr.}}
- Argyrodendron {{Au|F.Muell.}}
- Brachychiton {{small|Schott & Endl.}}
- Cola {{small|Schott & Endl.}}
- Firmiana {{small|Marsili}}
- Franciscodendron {{small|B.Hyland & Steenis}}
- Heritiera {{small|Aiton}}
- Hildegardia {{small|Schott & Endl.}}
- Octolobus {{small|Welw.}}
- Pterocymbium {{small|R.Br.}}
- Pterygota {{small|Schott & Endl.}}
- Scaphium {{small|Schott & Endl.}}
- Sterculia {{small|L.}}
- †Florissantia {{small|(Knowlton) Manchester}}