GROSSULARIACEAE
Contributed by David
Bogler
About 25 genera,
300–330 species, nearly worldwide.
Ribes traditionally was included in a broadly
circumscribed Saxifragaceae (Steyermark, 1963). More recently, phylogenetic
studies have indicated the woody members of the Saxifragaceae should be moved
to several other families (Morgan and Soltis, 1993; Soltis and Soltis, 1997),
with Ribes placed in the Grossulariaceae. The genus Itea has
sometimes been included in the Grossulariaceae (Cronquist, 1991), but is
treated in its own family, Iteaceae, in the present work (see that treatment
for discussion).