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Rhizophoraceae is a family of about 100 species of tropical flowering plants. Among the better known members are mangrove trees of the Genus Rhizophora, but most species live on land and a high proportion of these are parasitic. These are woody plants with flowers adapted to pollination by insects, having a nectary disc and typically five petals. They are now placed in the order Malpighiales, though under the older Cronquist systemThe Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and The Evolution and Classification they were given their own order.
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