Aceraceae --> now included in Sapindaceae
Adiantaceae --> included in Pteridaceae
Adoxaceae --> now includes some actinomorphic genera formerly included in Caprifoliaceae, e.g.
Sambucus and Viburnum.
Agavaceae --> a subfamily within Asparagaceae.
Alliaceae --> subfamily Allioideae in Amaryllidaceae.
Araliaceae --> now included in Apiaceae.
Asclepiadaceae --> now included in Apocynaceae.
Athyriaceae --> included in Dryopteridaceae
Caesalpinaceae --> included in Fabaceae
Capparaceae --> often included in Brassicaceae, but I'm leaving it separate.
Caprifoliaceae --> some genera formerly in Caprifoliaceae are now in Adoxaceae; genera
formerly in Dipsacaceae and Valerianaceae are now in Caprifoliaceae
Compositae --> now Asteraceae
Cruciferae --> now Brassicaceae
Cuscutaceae --> included in Convolvulaceae
Dipsacaceae --> now included in Caprifoliaceae
Fumariaceae --> now included in Papaveraceae
Gramineae --> now Poaceae
Guttiferae --> now Clusiaceae
Hippocastanaceae --> now included in Sapindaceae
Hydrophyllaceae --> now included within Boraginaceae
Leguminosae --> now Fabaceae
Liliaceae --> genera in the previous very broad circumscription of Liliaceae has been separated
out into Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae, Liliaceae, Melanthiaceae, and perhaps others
that do not occur to me at the moment.
Mimosaceae --> included in Fabaceae
Polypodiaceae --> older works use this family in a very broad sense, including members of
what are now Aspleniaceae, Pteridaceae, Dryopteridaceae, etc.
Ruscaceae --> subfamily Nolinoideae in Asparagaceae.
Scrophulariaceae --> most genera previously in Scrophulariaceae are now in
Plantaginaceae, Orobanchaceae, or Phrymaceae.
Umbelliferae --> now Apiaceae
Valerianaceae --> now included in Caprifoliaceae
Woodsiaceae --> included in Dryopteridaceae
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