The Molluginaceae are a family of flowering plants recognized by several taxonomists. It was previously included in the larger family Aizoaceae. The APG III system of 2009 made no change in the status of the family as compared to the APG II system of 2003 and the APG system of 1998, apart from a reassignment of several genera, such as the placement of Corrigiola and Telephium into Caryophyllaceae, Corbichonia in Lophiocarpaceae, Microtea into Microteaceae and Limeum in Limeaceae, because the family was found to be widely polyphyletic in Caryophyllales. In addition Macarthuria was found not to be related to Limeum as previously thought and thus it was placed in Macarthuriaceae, and similarly species formerly placed in Hypertelis, apart from type species Hypertelis spergulacea, a true Molluginaceae, were found to belong elsewhere and were described as Kewa in the family Kewaceae, named for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Molluginaceae is still assigned to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots, although the generic circumscription is difficult because Mollugo is not monophyletic.
Genera Molluginaceae in its current circumscription includes ca 9 genera and ca 80 known species Adenogramma Rchb. Coelanthum E.Mey. ex Fenzl Glinus L. Glischrothamnus Pilg. Hypertelis E.Mey. ex Fenzl Mollugo L. Pharnaceum L. Polpoda C.Presl Psammotropha Eckl. & Zeyh. Suessenguthiella Friedrich
Excluded genera Corbichonia Scop. (now correctly placed in Lophiocarpaceae) Corrigiola L. (now correctly placed in Caryophyllaceae) Kewa Christenh. (correctly placed in Kewaceae) Limeum L. (now correctly placed in Limeaceae) Macarthuria Hugel ex Endl. (now correctly placed in Macarthuriaceae) Orygia Forssk. = Corbichonia Scop. (Lophiocarpaceae) Semonvillea J.Gay = Limeum L. (Limeaceae) Telephium L. (now correctly placed in Caryophyllaceae)
Genera listed in Tropicos Tropicos currently includes 12 genera.
+ Genus Author Reference Date Adenogramma Rchb. Icon. Bot. Exot. 2: 3 1828 Coelanthum E. Mey. ex Fenzl Ann. Wiener Mus. Naturgesch. 1: 353 1836 Glinus L. Sp. Pl. 1: 463 1753 Glischrothamnus Pilg. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 396 1908 Hypertelis E. Mey. ex Fenzl Ann. Wiener Mus. Naturgesch. 1: 352 1836 Mollugo L. Sp. Pl. 1: 89 1753 Orygia Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 103 1775 Paramollugo Thulin Taxon 65(4): 784 2016 Pharnaceum L. Sp. Pl. 1: 272 1753 Polpoda C. Presl Polpoda [Nov. Pl. Gen.] 1829 Psammotropha Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. Pl. Afr. Austral. 286 1836 Suessenguthiella Friedrich Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 2(12): 60–62, f. A 1955 Notes:
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