Betulaceae Gray

First published in Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 222, 243. 1822 [10 Jan 1822] (1822)nom. cons.
This family is accepted

Accepted Genera

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

Neotropikey

  • Burns, R.M. & Honkala, B.H. (1990). Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States.  Agriculture Handbook 654.  United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Washington.
  • Furlow, J.J. (1977). Betulaceae. In Burger, W. Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Botany 40: 56-58.
  • Furlow, J.J. (1979). The systematics of the American species of Alnus (Betulaceae). Rhodora 81(825): 1-121.
  • Holdridge, L.R. (1951). The alder, Alnus acuminata, as a farm timber tree in Costa Rica. Caribbean Forester 12(2): 47-57.
  • Lentz, D.L.  (2004). Betulaceae.  pp 50-51 in: Smith, N.A. et al. (eds), Flowering plants of the Neotropics. Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
  • Manos, P. S. & Steele, K. P. (1997). Phylogenetic analyses of 'higher' Hamamelididae based on plastid sequence data. American Journal of Botany 84:1407-1419.

The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Furlow, J. J. (1997). Betulaceae. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee (eds), Flora of North America North of Mexico 3. Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford.
  • Kubitzki, K. (1993a). Betulaceae. In: K. Kubitzki, J. G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich (eds), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, II: 152–156. Springer Verlag, Berlin & Heidelberg.
  • Li, P. & Skvortsov, A. K. (1999). Betulaceae. In: Z. Y. Wu & P. H. Raven (eds), Flora of China 4: 286–313. Science Press, Beijing; Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  • Plants of the World Online (POWO) (2019 onwards). http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/.

Other Data

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Sources

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0