Angiospermae - Caryophyllales - Droseraceae
Parent taxon: Caryophyllales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1978, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Achatocarpaceae, Aizoaceae, Amaranthaceae, Anacampserotaceae, Ancistrocladaceae, Asteropeiaceae, Barbeuiaceae, Basellaceae, Cactaceae, Caryophyllaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Didiereaceae, Dioncophyllaceae, Drosophyllaceae, Frankeniaceae, Gisekiaceae, Halophytaceae, Hantsia, Hectorellaceae, Kewaceae, Limeaceae, Lophiocarpaceae, Lymingtonia, Macarthuriaceae, Microteaceae, Molluginaceae, Montiaceae, Nepenthaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Petiveriaceae, Phenanthera, Physenaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Plumbaginaceae, Polygonaceae, Portulacaceae, Rhabdodendraceae, Sarcobataceae, Simmondsiaceae, Stegnospermataceae, Talinaceae, Tamaricaceae
Subtaxa: Aldrovanda Drosera Droseridites
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), India (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of France (1)
• Miocene of Denmark (2), Germany (4), the Russian Federation (13)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (2)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), Germany (4), the Russian Federation (8)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Paleocene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), Egypt (9), Nigeria (1), Senegal (1), Sudan (1)
Total: 59 collections including 64 occurrences