Flacourtiaceae
The Flacourtiaceae is a defunct family of flowering plants whose former members have been scattered to various families, mostly to the Achariaceae and Salicaceae. It was so vaguely defined that hardly anything seemed out of place there and it became a dumping ground for odd and anomalous genera, gradually making the family even more heterogeneous. In 1975, Hermann Sleumer noted that "Flacourtiaceae as a family is a fiction; only the tribes are homogeneous."

In Cronquist's classification, the Flacourtiaceae included 79–89 genera and 800–1000 species. Of these, many, including the type genus "Flacourtia", have now been transferred to the Salicaceae in the molecular phylogeny-based classification, known as the APG IV system, established by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. In the list below, the Salicaceae are circumscribed broadly. Some taxonomists further divide the Salicaceae "sensu lato" into three families: Salicaceae "sensu stricto", Scyphostegiaceae, and Samydaceae, or into three subfamilies.

;Genera formerly included in the Flacourtiaceae (current family, and subfamily for Salicaceae, in brackets):
Q6615986
defunct
UNK
Q35409
family
Concept
Q25314
flowering plant
Concept
Q651518
Achariaceae
Concept
Q158487
Salicaceae
Concept
Q962530
dumping ground
UNK
Q73160
Hermann Sleumer
PER
Q227936
tribes
Concept
Q213094
Cronquist's classification
MISC
Q842832
type genus
Concept
Q610295
Flacourtia
Concept
Q158487
Salicaceae
Concept
Q2007033
molecular phylogeny
Concept
Q24895148
APG IV system
Concept
Q539818
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
ORG
Q1087319
sensu lato
UNK
Q1087319
sensu stricto
UNK
Q9075293
Scyphostegiaceae
MISC
Q1845706
Samydaceae
Concept
Q778168
Flacourtiaceae
Concept
Q778168
Flacourtiaceae
Concept
Q778168
Flacourtiaceae
Concept
Q778168
Flacourtiaceae
Concept
1975-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1975
DATE
+79^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
79
NUMBER
+89^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
89
NUMBER
+1000^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
1000
NUMBER
taxon rank
taxonomic type
taxon rank
taxon rank
parent taxon