well known, having been used in major botanical references such as Bentham and Hooker's Genera Plantarum, Engler and Prantl's Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, and Hutchinson's Families of Flowering Plants, it was conserved and is therefore legitimate. Genera During the last century, seven genera have been included in the family at one time or another. One phylogenetic analysis reduced the family to four genera: References Ericales families