Washington Flora Checklist
A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Washington State
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Monotropaceae   (Indian-Pipe Family)

Notes: FNA8: "Monotropa and related genera (genera 5-12 of this treatment), and Pyrola and related genera (genera 1-4 of this treatment) have been treated as families Monotropaceae and Pyrolaceae. Not all botanists agreed with this, as summarized by G. H. M. Lawrence (1951): "Many botanists (including Hutchinson) have held the view that the Pyrolaceae are not sufficiently distinct from the Ericaceae to be treated as a separate family." Differences in habit, floral features, and pollen have helped maintain family status for Pyrolaceae and Monotropaceae in regional floras. Molecular and morphological analyses (K. A. Kron et al. 2002) show these lineages embedded within Ericaceae. Similarly, Empetraceae has been demonstrated to be nested within Ericaceae and is here included in the Ericaceae."

Family Synonyms:
» Ericaceae in part

Literature: (none)

Family treatment authored by Fred Weinmann; last updated 11/5/2009 by David Giblin
 
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