Tetramelaceae

{{Short description|Family of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Taprohmroots01.JPG

|image_caption = Roots of a Tetrameles nudiflora tree along a gallery in Ta Prohm

|taxon = Tetramelaceae

|authority = Airy ShawAiry Shaw (1965) Kew Bull. 18(2): 267 [8 Dec 1965].

|subdivision_ranks = Genera

|subdivision =

• Octomeles {{Au|Miq.}}
• Tetrameles {{Au|R.Br.}}

}}

The Tetramelaceae are a family of plants in the order Cucurbitales, containing two genera of mostly Asian, large trees, Octomeles and Tetrameles, each with a single species.{{cite journal | author = Christenhusz, M. J. M. | author2 = Byng, J. W. | name-list-style=amp | 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 | publisher = Magnolia Press | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2016Phytx.261..201C }} These genera were formerly placed in the Datiscaceae,van Steenis CGGJ (1953) Datiscaceae. Fl. Males., Ser. I, Spermat. 4: 382–387. but genetic studies confirmed that they do not form a natural clade with the other members of that family.{{cite journal|url=http://www.umsl.edu/~renners/Schaefer&Renner_Cucs_Taxon2011.pdf |title=Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) |year=2011 | journal=Taxon |volume=60| issue=1 | pages= 122–38|doi=10.1002/tax.601011 |last1=Schaefer |first1=Hanno |last2=Renner |first2=Susanne S. |bibcode=2011Taxon..60..122S }}