Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Rhizophoraceae
Parent taxon: Malpighiales according to The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016
See also Chandler 1961, Chandler 1978, Knowlton 1919 and Mabberley 2000
Sister taxa: Achariaceae, Balanopaceae, Balanops, Bonnetiaceae, Calophyllaceae, Caryocaraceae, Centroplacaceae, Chrysobalanaceae, Clusiaceae, Ctenolophonaceae, Ctenolophonidites, Dichapetalaceae, Elatinaceae, Erythroxylaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Euphroniaceae, Goupiaceae, Humiriaceae, Hypericaceae, Irvingiaceae, Ixonanthaceae, Lacistemataceae, Linaceae, Longetia, Lophopyxidaceae, Malpighiaceae, Ochnaceae, Pandaceae, Passifloraceae, Peraceae, Petalostigma, Phyllanthaceae, Picrodendraceae, Podostemaceae, Putranjivaceae, Rafflesiaceae, Salicaceae, Trigoniaceae, Violaceae
Subtaxa: Bruguiera Carallioxylon Ceriops Gynotrochoxylon Palaeobruguiera Rhizophora Rhizophorites Rhizophorocarpus Rhizophoroxylon
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of India (11 collections), Panama (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Pliocene of Panama (7)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), India (3), Panama (22), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of India (1), Puerto Rico (13)
• Eocene of Australia (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Georgia)
• Tertiary of Venezuela (1)
• Cretaceous of India (2)
Total: 76 collections including 83 occurrences