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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| image = Malpighia coccigera 001.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Malpighia coccigera]]''
| name = Malpighiaceae
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Malpighiales]]
| familia = '''Malpighiaceae'''
| subdivision_ranks = [[Genus|Genera]]
| subdivision =
See text.
}}

The '''Malpighiaceae,''' a [[family (biology)|family]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the order [[Malpighiales]], comprises approximately 75 genera and 1300 [[species]] of the tropics and subtropics. About 80% of the genera and 90% of the species occur in the New World ([[West Indies]] and the southernmost [[United States]] to [[Argentina]]) and the rest in the Old World ([[Africa]], [[Madagascar]], and Indomalaysia to [[New Caledonia]] and the [[Philippines]]).

;Genera
{|
|- align=top
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*''[[Acmanthera]]''
*''[[Acridocarpus]]''
*''[[Adelphia (genus)|Adelphia]]''
*''[[Aenigmatanthera]]''
*''[[Alicia (genus)|Alicia]]''
*''[[Amorimia]]''
*''[[Aspicarpa]]''
*''[[Aspidopterys]]''
*''[[Banisteriopsis]]''
*''[[Barnebya]]''
*''[[Blepharandra]]''
*''[[Brachylophon]]''
*''[[Bronwenia]]''
*''[[Bunchosia]]''
*''[[Burdachia]]''
*''[[Byrsonima]]''
*''[[Calcicola]]''
*''[[Callaeum]]''
*''[[Camarea]]''
|
*''[[Carolus (genus)|Carolus]]''
*''[[Caucanthus]]''
*''[[Christianella]]''
*''[[Coleostachys]]''
*''[[Cordobia]]''
*''[[Cottsia]]''
*''[[Diacidia]]''
*''[[Dicella]]''
*''[[Digoniopterys]]''
*''[[Dinemagonum]]''
*''[[Dinemandra]]''
*''[[Diplopterys]]''
*''[[Echinopterys]]''
*''[[Ectopopterys]]''
*''[[Excentradenia]]''
*''[[Flabellaria]]''
*''[[Flabellariopsis]]''
*''[[Gallardoa]]''
*''[[Galphimia]]''
|
*''[[Gaudichaudia]]''
*''[[Glandonia]]''
*''[[Heladena]]''
*''[[Henleophytum]]''
*''[[Heteropterys]]''
*''[[Hiptage]]''
*''[[Hiraea]]''
*''[[Janusia]]''
*''[[Jubelina]]''
*''[[Lasiocarpus]]''
*''[[Lophanthera]]''
*''[[Lophopterys]]''
*''[[Madagasikaria]]''
*''[[Malpighia]]''
*''[[Malpighiodes]]''
*''[[Mascagnia]]''
*''[[Mcvaughia]]''
*''[[Mezia]]''
*''[[Microsteira]]''
|
*''[[Mionandra]]''
*''[[Niedenzuella]]''
*''[[Peixotoa]]''
*''[[Philgamia]]''
*''[[Psychopterys]]''
*''[[Pterandra]]''
*''[[Ptilochaeta]]''
*''[[Rhynchophora]]''
*''[[Rhyssopterys]]''
*''[[Spachea]]''
*''[[Sphedamnocarpus]]''
*''[[Stigmaphyllon]]''
*''[[Tetrapterys]]''
*''[[Thryallis]]''
*''[[Triaspis]]''
*''[[Tricomaria]]''
*''[[Triopterys]]''
*''[[Tristellateia]]''
*''[[Verrucularia]]''
|}

==External links==
*[http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/malpigh Malpighiaceae] Malpighiaceae - description, taxonomy, phylogeny, and nomenclature
* [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/malpighi.htm Malpighiaceae] in [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.] http://delta-intkey.com


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