While Michelia is of the genus of flowering plants, what is Houttuynia?
Houttuynia Houttuynia is a genus of two species in the Saururaceae native to Southeast Asia. One species, "H. cordata", is widely cultivated as a culinary herb. The genus was originally described in 1783 by Carl Peter Thunberg when he formally described "H. cordata" as the only species. It remained a monotypic genus until 2001 when Zheng Yin Zhu and Shi Liang Zhang discovered and described a second species native to China, "H. emeiensis".
Pedaliaceae Pedaliaceae, the pedalium family or sesame family, is a flowering plant family classified in the order Scrophulariales in the Cronquist system and Lamiales in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system. Cronquist included the family Martyniaceae in Pedaliaceae, but phylogenetic studies have shown that the two families are not closely related and they are maintained as separate by the APG. Both families are characterized by having mucilaginous hairs, which often give the stems and leaves a slimy or clammy feel, and often have fruits with hooks or horns.