Corsiaceae

Corsiaceae
Corsia spp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Corsiaceae Becc.[1]
Type genus
Corsia Becc.
Genera
See text

Corsiaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system (2003) treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. This is a slight change from the APG system, of 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but did assign it also to the monocots.

Taxonomy

The family is usually taken to include three genera, Corsia, Corsiopsis, and Arachnitis with a total of 27 known species.^[2] As the members of this family are achlorophyllous non-autotrophic herbs (i.e. they are not green, and do not photosynthesize) they have sometimes been included in the family Burmanniaceae which, however, according to APG II is not even in the same order. The APG companion site cites a reference which suggests the family should consist of Corsia only, with Arachnitis better placed nearer to family Burmanniaceae. Corsiopsis, like Arachnitis a monotypic genus, has been described recently.

Genera and species

Corsia ornata, Bird's Head Peninsula, Indonesia

• Arachnitis Phil., 1864
  • Arachnitis uniflora
• Corsia Becc., 1877
  • Corsia acuminata
  • Corsia arfakensis
  • Corsia boridiensis
  • Corsia brassii
  • Corsia clypeata
  • Corsia cordata
  • Corsia cornuta
  • Corsia crenata
  • Corsia cyclopensis
  • Corsia dispar
  • Corsia haianjensis
  • Corsia huonensis
  • Corsia lamellata
  • Corsia merimantaensis
  • Corsia ornata
  • Corsia papuana
  • Corsia purpurata
  • Corsia pyramidata
  • Corsia resiensis
  • Corsia torricellensis
  • Corsia triceratops
  • Corsia unguiculata
  • Corsia viridopurpurea
  • Corsia wiakabui
  • Corsia wubungu
• Corsiopsis D.X.Zhang, R.M.K.Saunders & C.M.Hu, 1999
  • Corsiopsis chinensis

References

1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
2. Christenhusz, M. J. M.; Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.

Bibliography

• Neyland, R.; M. Hennigan (2003). "A phylogeny inferred from large-subunit (26S) ribosome DNA sequences suggests that the Corsiaceae are polyphyletic". New Zealand J. Bot. 41: 1–11. doi:10.1080/0028825X.2003.9512828. S2CID 84392170.
• Ibisch, Pierre L.; Neinhuis, Christoph; Rojas, N Patricia (29 November 1996). "On the Biology, Biogeography, and Taxonomy of Arachnitis Phil. nom. cons. (Corsiaceae) in Respect to a New Record from Bolivia". Willdenowia. 26 (1/2): 321–332. doi:10.3372/wi.26.2616. JSTOR 3997251.
• Merckx, Vincent S. F. T.; Freudenstein, John V.; Kissling, Jonathan; et al. (2013). "Taxonomy and Classification". In Merckx, Vincent (ed.). Mycoheterotrophy: the biology of plants living on fungi. New York: Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 19–101. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5209-6. ISBN 978-1-4614-5208-9. S2CID 259078590.

External links

• links at CSDL, Texas Archived 2008-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Data related to Corsiaceae at Wikispecies
• Media related to Corsiaceae at Wikimedia Commons