†family Hydrangeaceae Dumortier 1829
Angiospermae - Cornales - Hydrangeaceae
Parent taxon: Cornales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Mabberley 2000 and Taylor et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Alangiaceae, Cornaceae, Curtisiaceae, Grubbiaceae, Hydrostachyaceae, Loasaceae, Nyssaceae
Subtaxa: Carpenterianthus
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Hydrangeaceae in the database