Malpighiaceae

The most important family containing lianas is Bignoniaceae, followed by Leguminosae, Hippocrateaceae, Menispermaceae, Sapindaceae, and Malpighiaceae.

Tapajós-Xingu moist forests 2008

The most important family containing lianas is Bignoniaceae, followed by Leguminosae, Hippocrateaceae, Menispermaceae, Sapindaceae, and Malpighiaceae.

Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests 2008

This sierra is considered a center of diversification for families such as the Malvaceae, and possibly Compositae and Malpighiaceae.

Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests 2007

But when Aspicarpa produced in France, during several years, only degraded flowers, departing so wonderfully in a number of the most important points of structure from the proper type of the order, yet M. Richard sagaciously saw, as Jussieu observes, that this genus should still be retained amongst the Malpighiaceae.

On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

Certain plants, belonging to the Malpighiaceae, bear perfect and degraded flowers; in the latter, as A. de Jussieu has remarked, "the greater number of the characters proper to the species, to the genus, to the family, to the class, disappear, and thus laugh at our classification."

On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

But when Aspicarpa produced in France, during several years, only degraded flowers, departing so wonderfully in a number of the most important points of structure from the proper type of the order, yet M. Richard sagaciously saw, as Jussieu observes, that this genus should still be retained amongst the Malpighiaceae.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

Certain plants, belonging to the Malpighiaceae, bear perfect and degraded flowers; in the latter, as A. de Jussieu has remarked, ` the greater number of the characters proper to the species, to the genus, to the family, to the class, disappear, and thus laugh at our classification. '

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

Certain Malpighiaceae for years produce only one of the two forms.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

Certain plants, belonging to the Malpighiaceae, bear perfect and degraded flowers; in the latter, as A. de Jussieu has remarked, "the greater number of the characters proper to the species, to the genus, to the family, to the class, disappear, and thus laugh at our classification."

On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845

Malpighiaceae, is quoted in the "Origin" (Edition VI., page 367) as an illustration of Linnaeus 'aphorism that the characters do not give the genus, but the genus gives the characters.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845