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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Begoniaceae
| image = Begonia1.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''Begonia aconitifolia''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Cucurbitales]]
| familia = '''Begoniaceae'''
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
''[[Begonia]]''<br/>
''[[Hillebrandia]]''
}}

'''Begoniaceae''' is a family of [[flowering plant]]s with about 1400 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the [[New World]] and [[Old World]]. All but one of the species are in the genus ''[[Begonia]]''. The only other genus in the family, ''[[Hillebrandia]]'', is [[Endemic (ecology)|endemic]] to the [[Hawaiian Islands]] and has a single species. Phylogenetic work supports ''Hillebrandia'' as the sister taxon to the rest of the family. The genus ''Symbegonia'' has recently been reduced to a section of ''Begonia'' as recent molecular phylogenies have shown it to be derived from within that genus.

Members of the genus ''[[Begonia]]'' are well-known and popular [[houseplant]]s.

==External links==
*[http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/6/905 Phylogenetic position and biogeography of ''Hillebrandia sandwicensis'' (Begoniaceae): a rare Hawaiian relict]
*[http://www.bioone.org/bioone/?request=get-abstract&issn=0363-6445&volume=028&issue=04&page=0693 Phylogenetic Relationships of the Afro-Malagasy Members of the Large Genus ''Begonia'' Inferred from trnL Intron Sequences]
*[http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aspt/sb/2005/00000030/00000003/art00017 A Phylogeny of ''Begonia'' Using Nuclear Ribosomal Sequence Data and Morphological Characters]
*[http://www.springerlink.com/(vylxjw45gax3bqakqnuvoy45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,5,12;journal,29,1501;linkingpublicationresults,1:104878,1 A recircumscription of Begonia based on nuclear ribosomal sequences]
{{commonscat|Begoniaceae}}

[[Category:Cucurbitales]]

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