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Malpighiales
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The Malpighiales are a large order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons.
Under the older Cronquist system, the families now included in the Malpighiales were dispersed throughout a number of different orders, not all of which belonged to the Rosidae. The most notable of these are the Polygalales, Violales, Theales, Linales , and Euphorbiales. The type family, the Malpighiaceae , was placed in Polygalales, an order still recognised by ITIS.
The following families are placed here in modern classification systems:
- Family Achariaceae
- Family Balanopaceae
- Family Bonnetiaceae
- Family Caryocaraceae
- Family Chrysobalanaceae
- Family Clusiaceae
- Family Ctenolophonaceae
- Family Dichapetalaceae
- Family Elatinaceae
- Family Erythryloxaceae (coca family)
- Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family)
- Family Euphroniaceae
- Family Goupiaceae
- Family Humiriaceae
- Family Hypericaceae (St John's wort family)
- Family Irvingiaceae
- Family Ixonanthaceae
- Family Lacistemaceae
- Family Linaceae (flax family)
- Family Lophopyxidaceae
- Family Malesherbiaceae
- Family Malpighiaceae (acerola family)
- Family Medusagynaceae
- Family Ochnaceae
- Family Pandaceae
- Family Passifloraceae (passion-flower family)
- Family Peridiscaceae
- Family Phyllanthaceae
- Family Picodendraceae
- Family Podostemaceae
- Family Putranjivaceae
- Family Quiinaceae
- Family Rhizophoraceae (mangrove family)
- Family Salicaceae (willow family)
- Family Trigoniaceae
- Family Turneraceae (damiana family)
- Family Violaceae (violet family)
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