This sierra is considered a center of diversification for families such as the Malvaceae, and possibly Compositae and Malpighiaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests] Reference
The most important family containing lianas is Bignoniaceae, followed by Leguminosae, Hippocrateaceae, Menispermaceae, Sapindaceae, and Malpighiaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests] Reference
Certain Malpighiaceae for years produce only one of the two forms. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
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. '. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical)] Reference
Volume III., page 1, 1843.), in "Arch. du Museum," Tome 3, discusses the value of characters of degraded flowers in the Malpighiaceae, but I doubt whether this at all concerns you. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Malpighiaceae, degraded flowers of. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Malpighiaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Garden Voices] Reference
Malpighiaceae, 417. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
Malpighiaceae, 3 Ulmaceae, 1. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
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