{{Short description|Subfamily of trees and shrubs}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Sterculia foetida (2334259875).jpg | image_caption = ''Sterculia foetida'' | taxon = Sterculioideae | authority = Beilschm. | type_genus = ''Sterculia'' | type_genus_authority = L. | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See below | synonyms = * {{extinct}}Florissantoideae * Coloideae }}
'''Sterculioideae''' is a subfamily of the family Malvaceae<ref name=APW>{{cite web | url = http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/APweb/orders/malvalesweb.htm#Malvales | title = Angiosperm Phylogeny Website - Malvales | publisher = Missouri Botanical Garden}}</ref><ref name=GRIN>{{cite web | url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/gnlist.pl?1755 | title = GRIN Taxonomy for Plants - Genera of Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae | publisher = United States Department of Agriculture}}</ref> containing evergreen and deciduous tree and shrub genera, that were previously placed in the obsolete family Sterculiaceae.
==Taxonomy== A 2006 molecular study indicated the Sterculioideae was most likely to be a monophyletic group, and that it had four major clades within it. However, the relationships between the clades were not resolved.<ref name=wilkie06>{{cite journal | title=Phylogenetic Relationships within the Subfamily Sterculioideae (Malvaceae/Sterculiaceae-Sterculieae) Using the Chloroplast Gene ''ndhF'' |author1=Wilkie, Peter |author2=Clark, Alexandra |author3=Pennington, R. Toby |author4=Cheek, Martin |author5=Bayer, Clemens |author6=Wilcock, Chris C. | journal=Systematic Botany |year=2006|volume=31|issue=1 |pages=160–70 |doi=10.1600/036364406775971714}}</ref>
The clades consist of: * a ''Cola'' clade, with the genera ''Cola'' and ''Octolobus'' of Africa and ''Pterygota'' of Africa, South America and southeast Asia forming a subclade, ''Hildegardia'' and ''Firmiana'' forming a second and ''Scaphium'' and ''Pterocymbium'' a third. * ''Heritiera'' clade comprising the genus ''Heritiera'' * ''Sterculia'' clade comprising the large genus ''Sterculia'' of Australasia and Asia. * ''Brachychiton'' clade of Australasian and New Caledonian species, including ''Brachychiton'', ''Acropogon'', ''Argyrodendron'' and ''Franciscodendron''.
===List of genera=== *''Acropogon'' {{Au|Schltr.}} *''Argyrodendron'' {{Au|F.Muell.}} *''Brachychiton'' {{small|Schott & Endl.}} *''Cola'' {{small|Schott & Endl.}} *''Firmiana'' {{small|Marsili}} *''Franciscodendron'' {{small|B.Hyland & Steenis}} *''Heritiera'' {{small|Aiton}} *''Hildegardia'' {{small|Schott & Endl.}} *''Octolobus'' {{small|Welw.}} *''Pterocymbium'' {{small|R.Br.}} *''Pterygota'' {{small|Schott & Endl.}} *''Scaphium'' {{small|Schott & Endl.}} *''Sterculia'' {{small|L.}} * †''Florissantia'' {{small|(Knowlton) Manchester}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Sterculioideae Category:Rosid subfamilies