Barbeuiaceae is an interesting group of plants with a fascinating story. These plants are native to Madagascar and are classified as carnivorous because they consume insects as part of their diet. What makes this group unique is that they use adhesive traps to catch their prey rather than the more commonly known snap traps found in Venus flytraps. Studies have shown that the sticky trap mechanisms in Barbeuiaceae are some of the most effective of any carnivorous plant group. This fascinating adaptation to their environment is just one example of the incredible diversity found in the plant kingdom.
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Barbeuia madagascariensis is a liana found only on the island of Madagascar.
Barbeuia has occasionally been placed in its own family, Barbeuiaceae. The APG II system of 2003, for instance, recognizes such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots, after Philippe Cuénoud sequenced a fragment of the matK gene (extracted from a seed deposited in the Kew herbarium) and showed that Barbeuia does not belong in Phytolaccaceae. This represents a change from the APG system, of 1998, which did not recognize Barbeuiaceae as a family, for lack of molecular data.
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