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Drosophyllaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has hardly ever been recognized by taxonomists.
The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recognize this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family consists of a single species, Drosophyllum lusitanicum, of carnivorous plants. This species had previously always been included in the family Droseraceae, as it catches insects with a method reminiscent of that used by sundew.
Recent molecular and biochemical evidence (see the AP-Website) suggests that the carnivorous taxa in the order Caryophyllales (the families Droseraceae, Drosophyllaceae, Nepenthaceae, and the species Triphyophyllum peltatum) all belong to the same clade which does not consist only of carnivorous plants but also includes some non-carnivorous plants such as those in the family Ancistrocladaceae.
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