Common Names - Willow Family | Synonyms - |
Authority - Mirbel. | Total Number of genera - 57 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 435 |
Plant forms - Tree/Shrub |
World Distribution - Frigid zone and temperate. Absent from Australasia and New Guinea, otherwise cosmopolitan, but mostly temperate Northern hemisphere |
Comments - Important timber trees. 2 genera with 135 species are trees.Recent genetic studies by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 57 genera.
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