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Plantaginaceae -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but genetic research by the (Click link for more info and facts about Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) Angiosperm Phylogeny Group demonstrated that this taxon should be included within the Lamiales. |
 | | The plantain family used to consist of only three genera, Bougueria, Littorella, and (Type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs) Plantago. |
 | | However, new phylogenetic research (Olmstead, 2003) indicates that this family is much larger, including several genera from (A family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales) Scrophulariaceae, and, according to Olmstead, should be renamed Veronicaceae. |
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