Common Names - Garlic Tree Family | Synonyms - |
Authority - A. Chev. | Total Number of genera - 2 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 3 |
Plant forms - Trees, shrubs, lianes & herbs |
World Distribution - Africa |
Comments - Huaceae is one rare instance where it does not have an order assigned to it.
Huaceae is a family of plant in the rosids group, which has been classed in the orders Malpighiales, Malvales, and Violales or in its own order Huales. The APG II system places it in the clade eurosids I. It contains the following genera:
* Afrostyrax
* Hua
The trees & shrubs hava a garlic smell. |