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Canella |
The Canellaceae are a family of flowering plants. The family has sixteen species in six genera. The species are highly aromatic evergreen plants, mostly trees and rarely shrubs, which produce essential oils. Families Cannelaceae and Winteraceae form order Canellales.
The family is found tropical climate regions in the Afrotropic and Neotropic ecozones, including South America, the West Indies and Florida, East Africa, and Madagascar.
The APG II system (2003) assigns it to the order Canellales in the clade magnoliids. This represents a change from the 1998 APG system, which left the family unplaced as to order and merely listed it among the basal lineages of the angiosperms.
References
- Canellaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards), The families of flowering plants
- Flora of North America: Cannellaceae
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser: Cannellaceae
