{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} [[File:Centrolepis cuspidigera-LSoL.jpg|thumb|''Centrolepis cuspidigera'']] [[File:Centrolepis fascicularis.jpg|thumb|''Centrolepis fascicularis'']]
'''Centrolepidaceae''' was a family of flowering plants now included in Restionaceae following APG IV (2016).<ref name="apgiv">{{Citation |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2016 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–20 |doi= 10.1111/boj.12385|doi-access=free }}</ref> The botanical name has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The APG III system of 2009 recognized the family,<ref name=APGIII2009>{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> as did the APG II system of 2003 and the APG system of 1998), and assigned it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots.
The family was regarded as containing three genera, ''Aphelia'', ''Centrolepis'', and ''Gaimardia'',<ref>Cooke, D.A. (1998) Centrolepidaceae. In Kubitzki, K. (ed) ''Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' 4: 106–109. (Springer Verlag: Berlin).</ref> with about 35 species total, found in Australia, New Zealand, southern South America and Southeast Asia.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ford|first1=Kerry A. (2014)|title=Centrolepidaceae. In: Breitwieser, I.; Brownsey, P.J.; Heenan, P.B.; Wilton, A.D. Flora of New Zealand – Seed Plants. Fascicle 2.|url=http://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/Taxon/Centrolepidaceae.html|website=nzflora.info|publisher=Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln.}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070902002412/http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/flora?f=040&level=f&id=040 Centrolepidaceae in western Australia] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050827214037/http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/flora?f=040&level=g&id=331 Aphelia in western Australia] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070903043846/http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/browse/flora?f=040&level=g&id=333 Centrolepis in western Australia] *[http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Centrolepidaceae links at CSDL, Texas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826213904/http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Centrolepidaceae |date=26 August 2007 }} * Centrolepidaceae [http://www.nzflora.info/factsheet/Taxon/Centrolepidaceae.html] in Flora of New Zealand.
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Category:Restionaceae Category:Poales families Category:Historically recognized angiosperm families