Family · Magnoliids & basal
Winteraceae
Winter's bark
Aromatic southern trees and shrubs with primitive vessel-less wood; Drimys bark was a historic scurvy remedy.
- Accepted species
- 95accepted names · Kew WCVP
- Genera
- 5accepted genera · Kew WCVP
- Origin
- ≈30 MaPaleogene · crown age, Jin & Qian 2022 megatree
- Centre of diversity
- Asia-Tropicalmost native species · WGSRPD
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Plants you might know
- Drimys (winter's bark)
- Tasmannia (mountain pepper)
Genera
Zygogynum47 spp.
Tasmannia36 spp.
Drimys7 spp.
Pseudowintera4 spp.
Takhtajania1 spp.
Where it grows
- Asia-Tropical54
- Pacific19
- Australasia15
- Southern America7
- Africa1
- Northern America1
Native species richness by botanical continent (WGSRPD level 1), from Kew WCVP.
Related families
Winteraceae sits in the order Canellales.