{{Short description|Family of flowering plants}} [[File:Turnera subulata.jpg|thumb|flower of ''Turnera subulata'']]
'''Turneraceae''' Kunth ex DC. ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|t|ɜːr|n|ɪ|ˈ|r|eɪ|s|i|i}}) was a family of flowering plants consisting of 120 species in 10 genera. The Cronquist system placed the Turneracids in the order Violales, but it is not currently recognized as a family by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group in the APG III system of 2009, which includes the taxa in the Turneraceae in Passifloraceae as a subfamily (Turneroideae).<ref name="apgiii">{{Citation |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>
==Description== Most species in Turneraceae are tropical or sub-tropical shrubs, with a few trees. Half of the family's species belong to the genus ''Turnera'', including the herb damiana (''T. diffusa, T. aphrodisiaca''), the yellow alder (''T. pumilea''), which is not really an alder, and the "ramgoat dashalong" (''T. ulmifolia''). Another type of plant in Turneraceae with a vernacular name is stripeseed, which is actually three different species of the genus ''Piriqueta'' - the pitted stripeseed (''P. cistoides''), the rigid stripeseed (''P. racemosa''), and the purple stripeseed (''P. viscosa'').
==Genera== The genera typically included in this family are: *''Adenoa'' *''Erblichia'' *''Hyalocalyx'' *''Loewia'' *''Mathurina'' *''Piriqueta'' *''Stapfiella'' *''Streptopetalum'' *''Tricliceras'' (''Wormskioldia'') *''Turnera''
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20041212124125/http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/angio/www/turnerac.htm Entry on Turneraceae] from L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The Families of Flowering Plants.
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Category:Malpighiales families Category:Historically recognized angiosperm families
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