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Taxon: Family Ebenaceae Gürke (1892), nom. cons. - ebony family (plant)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  Gürke, in H.G.A. Engler & K.A.E. Prantl, 1892, nom. illeg., nom. cons.
Original name, rank & spelling:  Gürke, M. 1892. In H.G.A. Engler & K.A.E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4 (1), [Dec] 1892: 153. ≡

Attributes

Type genus: illegitimate (nom.[: typ.] illeg.) [IC[B]N, 2025: Art. 18.3 (family)] Ref: S.J. Brands (comp.), 1989-present. Syst. Nat. 2000: 16 Aug 2022.
Conserved name (nom. cons. [prop.]) [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Art. 14, Rec. 50E.1, App. II-IV] Ref: W. Greuter et al. (eds.), 1994. Int. Code Bot. Nomencl. (Tokyo Code): App. IIB (p. 105).
Validated without Latin description/diagnosis [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Art. 39.1 (ex 1935-2011)] Ref: J.L. Reveal, 2010. Phytotaxa 6: 61 ("Validated by a description in German.").

Types

Automatically typified subtaxon: Ebenoideae (Subfamily) (Gürke, in Engl. & K.A.E. Prantl, 1891) Thorne & Reveal (2007)
Type: Ebenus (Genus) Kuntze (1891), nom. illeg. Ref: W. Greuter et al. (eds.), 1994: App. IIB (p. 105).
Type, by synonymy: Maba (Genus) J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (1775) Ref: W. Greuter et al. (eds.), 1994: App. IIB (p. 105).

Synonyms

Including: Lissocarpaceae (Family) Gilg (1924), nom. cons. Ref: D.J. Mabberley, 2008: 937.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: ebony family
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