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Austrobaileyales is the botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 for an order of flowering plants, consisting of about 100 species of woody plant
Woody plant

A woody plant is a Vascular tissue plant that has a Perennial plant Plant stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened bark. Woody plants are adapted to survive from one year to the next; the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from one year to next....
s, perhaps the most famous of which is the spice star anise
Star anise

Star anise, star aniseed, badiane or Chinese star anise, is a spice that closely resembles anise in flavor, obtained from the star-shaped fruit of Illicium verum, a small native evergreen tree of southwest China....
.

l the early 21st century, the order was only rarely recognised by systems of classification
List of systems of plant taxonomy

This list of systems of plant taxonomy presents ?taxonomic systems? used in plant classification.A wiktionary:taxonomic system is a coherent whole of alpha taxonomy judgements on circumscription and placement of the considered taxa....
 (an exception is the Reveal system
Reveal system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Reveal system of plant classification was drawn up by the botanist J.L. Reveal , professor emeritus at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland ....
).

The APG system
APG system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes....
, of 1998, did not recognize such an order. The APG II system
APG II system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in...
, of 2003, does accept this order and places it among the basal angiosperms, that is: it does not belong to any further clade.






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Austrobaileyales is the botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 for an order of flowering plants, consisting of about 100 species of woody plant
Woody plant

A woody plant is a Vascular tissue plant that has a Perennial plant Plant stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened bark. Woody plants are adapted to survive from one year to the next; the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from one year to next....
s, perhaps the most famous of which is the spice star anise
Star anise

Star anise, star aniseed, badiane or Chinese star anise, is a spice that closely resembles anise in flavor, obtained from the star-shaped fruit of Illicium verum, a small native evergreen tree of southwest China....
.

In different classifications

Until the early 21st century, the order was only rarely recognised by systems of classification
List of systems of plant taxonomy

This list of systems of plant taxonomy presents ?taxonomic systems? used in plant classification.A wiktionary:taxonomic system is a coherent whole of alpha taxonomy judgements on circumscription and placement of the considered taxa....
 (an exception is the Reveal system
Reveal system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Reveal system of plant classification was drawn up by the botanist J.L. Reveal , professor emeritus at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland ....
).

The APG system
APG system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistics analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes and one gene coding for ribosomes....
, of 1998, did not recognize such an order. The APG II system
APG II system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in...
, of 2003, does accept this order and places it among the basal angiosperms, that is: it does not belong to any further clade. APG II uses this circumscription:

  • order Austrobaileyales
    • family Austrobaileyaceae
      Austrobaileyaceae

      Austrobaileyaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. This family is recognised by most plant taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognise such a family and places it in order Austrobaileyales....
      , two species of woody
      Woody plant

      A woody plant is a Vascular tissue plant that has a Perennial plant Plant stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened bark. Woody plants are adapted to survive from one year to the next; the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from one year to next....
       vine
      Vine

      A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
      s from Australia
      Australia

      Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    • family Schisandraceae
      Schisandraceae

      Schisandraceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades....
       [+ family Illiciaceae
      Illiciaceae

      Illiciaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades....
      ], several dozen species of woody plant
      Woody plant

      A woody plant is a Vascular tissue plant that has a Perennial plant Plant stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened bark. Woody plants are adapted to survive from one year to the next; the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from one year to next....
      s, found in tropical to temperate
      Temperate

      In geography, temperate or tepid latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The changes in these regions between summer and winter are generally mild, rather than extreme hot or cold....
       regions of East
      East Asia

      East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either Geography or cultural terms. Geography and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km?, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia....
       and Southeast Asia
      Southeast Asia

      Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
       and the Caribbean
      Caribbean

      The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
      .
    • family Trimeniaceae
      Trimeniaceae

      Trimeniaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades....
      , half-a-dozen species, of woody plant
      Woody plant

      A woody plant is a Vascular tissue plant that has a Perennial plant Plant stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened bark. Woody plants are adapted to survive from one year to the next; the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from one year to next....
      s found in subtropical to tropical Southeast Asia
      Southeast Asia

      Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India and north of Australia....
      , eastern Australia
      Australia

      Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
       and the Pacific Islands
      Pacific Islands

      The Pacific Ocean contains an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands . Those islands lying south of the tropic of Cancer but excluding Australia are traditionally grouped into three divisions: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia....


Note: "+ ..." = optional seggregrate family, that may be split off from the preceding family. The Cronquist system
Cronquist system

A list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants . This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ....
, of 1981, also placed the plants in families Illiciaceae and Schisandraceae together, but as separate families, united at the rank of order, in the order Illiciales.

The current phylogeny is: