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| Authority - Dumort. | Total Number of genera - 2 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 56 |
| Plant forms - Herb, high climbing Liane |
| World Distribution - Tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World and Australia. Sub-tropical to tropical. Africa, southeast Asia and Malaysia, northeast Australia. |
| Comments - family has rarely been recognized by taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), does recognize such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales
The family has wood in Flagellaria..
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