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| Authority - R. Br. | Total Number of genera - 35 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 1225 |
| Plant forms - Tree/Shrub/Liane/sub-herbaceous | |
| World Distribution - tropical and warm areas with few in Old World | |
| Comments - 30 genera and 1,000 species as trees. A widespread family belonging to temperate to tropical climates extending north to Europe, Siberia, Japan, Mexico and Florida, and south to New Zealand, South America, and South Africa. | |