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.... , the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist
Arthur Cronquist
Arthur John Cronquist was a North American botany and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanist of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cronquist system.... (1919-1992) in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants (1968; 2nd edition, 1988).
Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two broad classes, Magnoliopsida
Magnoliopsida
Magnoliopsida is a valid botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its wiktionary:circumscription can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being discussed.... (dicotyledon
Dicotyledon
Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group.... s) and Liliopsida
Liliopsida
Liliopsida is a botanical name for the Class containing the Family Liliaceae . It is considered synonymous with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli : see author citation .... (monocotyledon
Monocotyledon
Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of flowering plants that are traditionally recognised, the other being dicotyledons or dicots.... s).
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.... , the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist
Arthur Cronquist
Arthur John Cronquist was a North American botany and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanist of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cronquist system.... (1919-1992) in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants (1968; 2nd edition, 1988).
Cronquist's system places flowering plants into two broad classes, Magnoliopsida
Magnoliopsida
Magnoliopsida is a valid botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its wiktionary:circumscription can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being discussed.... (dicotyledon
Dicotyledon
Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 199,350 species within this group.... s) and Liliopsida
Liliopsida
Liliopsida is a botanical name for the Class containing the Family Liliaceae . It is considered synonymous with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli : see author citation .... (monocotyledon
Monocotyledon
Monocotyledons or monocots are one of two major groups of flowering plants that are traditionally recognised, the other being dicotyledons or dicots.... s). Within these classes, related orders are grouped into subclasses.
The scheme is still widely used, in either the original form or in adapted versions, but many botanists are adopting the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to two international groups of systematic botany who came together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge in angiosperm relationships based upon molecular systematics studies.... classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II
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... .
The system as laid out in An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) counts 321 families and 64 orders:
Magnoliopsida is a valid botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its wiktionary:circumscription can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being discussed....
Magnoliidae are a group of about 9,000 species of flowering plants, including magnolias, nutmeg, bay laurel, cinnamon, avocado, black pepper, and many others.... (mostly basal dicots)
The Winteraceae are a family of flowering plants. The family includes 120 species of trees and shrubs in 9 genus.The Winteraceae are a mostly southern-hemisphere family associated with the Antarctic flora, found in tropical to temperate climate regions of Malesia, Oceania ecozone, eastern Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar and the Neotropic...
Degeneriaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by more than a few taxonomists, at least over the past few decades....
Himantandraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Magnoliales in the clade magnoliids....
Eupomatiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Magnoliales in the clade magnoliids....
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....
The Magnoliaceae, or Magnolia Family, is a Angiosperm family in the order Magnoliales. It consists of two subfamilies:*Magnolioideae, of which Magnolia is the most well-known genus.... (magnolia family)
Annonaceae family, also called custard apple familyis a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs or rarely woody lianas.With about 2300 to 2500 species and more than 130 genera,...
Myristicaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists; it is sometimes called the "nutmeg family", after its most famous member, Nutmeg ....
The Canellaceae are a family of flowering plants. The family has sixteen species in six genus. The species are highly aromatic evergreen plants, mostly trees and rarely shrubs, which produce essential oils....
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....
Monimiaceae is a family of flowering plants, which includes 150-220 species of shrubs and small trees in 18-25 genera. They are native to the southern hemisphere tropics and subtropics....
The Calycanthaceae is a small family of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains four genera and only 6-11 species, restricted to warm temperate and tropical regions:...
The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 2000 species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and Brazil.... (laurel family)
Hernandiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Laurales in the clade magnoliids....
Piperales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It necessarily includes the family Piperaceae but otherwise has been treated variously over time....
Chloranthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family consists of four genera, totalling several dozen species, of herbaceous or woody plants primarily occurring in the tropics and sub-tropics....
Saururaceae is a plant family comprising four genera and six species of herbaceous flowering plants native to eastern and southern Asia and North America....
Piperaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists: it is sometimes known as the "pepper family".... (pepper family)
Aristolochiales is an order of flowering plants. It is not recognised in the APG System or APG II System systems, in which it is considered a synonym of Piperales....
The Aristolochiaceae, or the Birthwort family, are a family of flowering plants with 8 genera and about 400 species belonging to the order Piperales....
Austrobaileyales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants, consisting of about 100 species of woody plants, perhaps the most famous of which is the spice star anise....
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....
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....
Nymphaeales is a botanical name at the rank of order . When recognized, it includes Nymphaeaceae and sometimes other aquatic plants. This order is not part of the APG II system 2003 plant classification , which instead has a broadly circumscribed family Nymphaeaceae unplaced in any order....
Nymphaeaceae is a name for a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live in freshwater areas in temperate and Tropics around the world....
Cabombaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by at least some taxonomists. The family consists of two genera of aquatic plants, , totalling half-a-dozen species....
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family.The APG system and the APG II system both recognize the order and place it among the basal eudicots, not assigned to a further clade....
Ranunculaceae is a family of flowering plants also known as the "buttercup family" or "crowfoot family". The family name is derived from the genus Ranunculus....
Circaeasteraceae is a family of one to two species of herbaceous plants native to China and the Himalayas.The family has been recognized by many taxonomists....
Berberidaceae is a family of 15 genera flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order Ranunculales. The family contains about 570 species, of which the majority are in Berberis....
Lardizabalaceae is a family of flowering plants.The family has been universally recognized by taxonomists, including the APG II system , which places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots....
Menispermaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. curare, a neuromuscular blocker and active ingredient in curare, is derived from plants of this family....
Sabiaceae is a family of flowering plants, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern Asia and the Americas.In the Cronquist system the family was placed in the order Ranunculales, but more recent classifications place it as the sole family in the order Sabiales, or , as unplaced to order and left among the basal linea...
Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family.The APG system and the APG II system both recognize the order and place it among the basal eudicots, not assigned to a further clade....
Fumariaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by a fair number of taxonomists: it is sometimes called the "Fumitory family"....
Trochodendrales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. An order by this name was recognised in the Cronquist system, as comprising the families Tetracentraceae and Trochodendraceae, each consisting of a single species....
Tetracentraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does not formally use this family; it assumes the plants involved to belong to family Trochodendraceae....
Trochodendraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family: it is unplaced as to order and left among the basal lineages of the eudicots....
Hamamelidales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The Cronquist system included the order in subclass Hamamelidae with the wiktionary:circumscription:...
Eupteleaceae is a family of flowering plants.The family has been recognized by many taxonomists. The APG II system , recognizes it and places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots....
The Hamamelidaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, including 27 genera and about 80-90 species, all shrubs and small trees....
Myrothamnaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system includes Myrothamnaceae in Gunneraceae but allows for the optional segregation of this family from Gunneraceae....
Daphniphyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Daphniphyllaceae, including about 25 species, all evergreen shrubs and trees native to east and southeast Asia....
Daphniphyllum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Daphniphyllaceae, including about 25 species, all evergreen shrubs and trees native to east and southeast Asia....
Didymeles is a genus of flowering plants. It is variously treated in the family Buxaceae, or as the only genus of the family Didymelaceae. The genus is native to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands and consists of two species of evergreen trees:...
Didymeles is a genus of flowering plants. It is variously treated in the family Buxaceae, or as the only genus of the family Didymelaceae. The genus is native to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands and consists of two species of evergreen trees:...
Eucommia is a small tree Native plant to China. It is extinct in the wild, but is widely cultivated in China for its bark, highly valued in herbology such as Traditional Chinese medicine .... les
Eucommia is a small tree Native plant to China. It is extinct in the wild, but is widely cultivated in China for its bark, highly valued in herbology such as Traditional Chinese medicine .... ceae
Urticales is a botanical name for what used to be an order of flowering plants. This order was recognized in many, perhaps even most, list of systems of plant taxonomy, with some variations in wiktionary: cirumscription....
Ulmaceae is a family of flowering plants that includes the elms , and the zelkovas . Members of the family are widely distributed throughout the Temperate, and have a scattered distribution elsewhere except for Australasia....
Cannabaceae is a small family of flowering plants.According to the Royal Botanical Gardens database, there are 170 species grouped in nine to fifteen genera, including three well-known genera Cannabis , Hop and Hackberry ....
Morus-alba.jpgMoraceae ? often called the mulberry family or fig family ? is a family of flowering plants comprising about 40 genera and over 1000 species....
Urticaceae, or the nettle family, is a family of flowering plants. The family name comes from the genus Urtica . Urticaceae includes a number of well-known, interesting and useful plants, including genus Urtica , Boehmeria nivea , Pipturus albidus , and Debregeasia saeneb ....
Juglandales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. This order was recognised in several list of systems of plant taxonomy . The Cronquist system placed the order in the subclass Hamamelidae, as comprising the families Juglandaceae and Rhoipteleaceae, the latter consisting of only a single species....
The Rhoipteleaceae, is a family of flowering plants . The family consists of only one species grouped into one genus, the Horsetail tree . It is native to southwest China and north Vietnam and lives at the elevation of 700-1600m in mountainous areas....
The Juglandaceae, also known as the Walnut Family, is a family of trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales. Various members of this family are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia....
The Myricaceae is a small family of dicotyledonous shrubs and small trees in the order Fagales. There are three genera in the family, though some botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella....
The family Fagaceae, or beech family, comprises about 900 species of both evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, which are characterized by alternate simple leaves with pinnate venation, unisexual flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of cup-like nuts....
Betulaceae, or the Birch Family, includes six genera of deciduous nut -bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams, numbering about 130 species....
Casuarinaceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of 3 or 4 genera and approximately 70 species of trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics , Australia, and the Pacific islands....
Casuarinaceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of 3 or 4 genera and approximately 70 species of trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics , Australia, and the Pacific islands....
Caryophyllidae is a botanical name at the rank of Subclass . At the moment there is no complete consensus about what Order it includes, except that it presumably contains the order Caryophyllales....
Caryophyllales is an Order of flowering plants that includes the cactus, Dianthus caryophylluss, amaranths, ice plants, and most carnivorous plants....
Phytolaccaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been almost universally recognized by Taxonomy , although its circumscription has varied....
Achatocarpaceae is a family of woody plant flowering plants. The family consists of two genera and ten species, and has been recognized by most taxonomists....
Nyctaginaceae, the Four O'Clock Family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions....
The Family Aizoaceae or Ficoidaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1900 species. They are commonly known as stone plants or carpet weeds....
Didiereaceae is a small family of just four genera and 11 species of flowering plants endemic to south and southwest Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Ecoregions of Madagascar....
Chenopodiaceae is a family of flowering plants. Although widely recognized in most plant classifications , the APG system and the APG II system have included these plants in the family Amaranthaceae on the basis of evidence from molecular phylogenies....
The flowering plant family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, contains about 160 genera and 2,400 species. Most of these species are herbs or shrubs; very few are trees or climbers....
Portulacaceae is a family of flowering plants, comprising about 20 genera with about 500 species, ranging from herbaceous plants to shrubs. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is also known as the purslane family; it has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the highest diversity in semi-arid regions of the Southern Hemispher...
Molluginaceae is a family of flowering plants recognized by several taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots....
The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. The species are dicotyledons included in the order Caryophyllales....
Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family....
Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family....
Dillenidae is a botanical name at the rank of Subclass .wiktionary: circumscription of the subclass will vary with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used; the only requirement being that it includes the family Dilleniaceae....
Dilleniales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The Cronquist system, of 1981, recognized such order and placed it in subclass Dilleniidae....
Dilleniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It is known to gardeners for the genus Hibbertia, which contains many commercially valuable garden species....
Theales is a botanical name at the rank of order . The name was used by the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae, in the 1981 version of the system the circumscription was:...
The family Ochnaceae, or wild plane family, comprises mainly trees or shrubs, and more rarely herbaceous plants. Species of the Ochnaceae are found from subtropical to tropical regions....
Sphaerosepalaceae is a family of flowering plants. It contains 14 species of trees and shrubs in two genera, Dialyceras and Rhopalocarpus, all of which are endemic to Madagascar....
The Sarcolaenaceae are a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar. The family includes 40 species of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs in ten genus....
Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 17 genera and approximately 500 species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus Dipterocarpus, is derived from Greek language and refers to the two-winged fruit....
The Theaceae is a family of flowering plants, composed of shrubs and trees. The Theaceae is part of order Ericales, in the branch of the dicots known as the Asterids.... (tea family)
Actinidiaceae, or the Chinese Gooseberry family, is a small family of plants. It includes three genus and about 360 species. It is a member of the order Ericales....
Pentaphylax is a genus of flowering plants, with one or two species which are shrubs and small trees. The species has simple evergreen leaves that are alternately arranged on the stems....
Marcgraviaceae is a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales.The members of the family are shrubs, woody epiphytes and lianas with alternate, pinnately-nerved leaves....
Elatinaceae is a family of flowering plants with 2 genera, Elatine, and Bergia, in 35-50 species. The Elatine are mostly aquatic Herbaceous plants, and the Bergia are subshrubs to shrubs....
Paracryphiaceae is a family of woody shrubs and trees native to Australia, south-east Asia, and New Caledonia. Under the APG II system, this family contains two genera: the monotypic Paracryphia, endemic to New Caledonia; and Quintinia, with 25 species in the Philippines, New Guinea, the east coast of Australia, New Zealand and New Ca...
The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. is a family of plants including about 37 genera and 1610 species of trees and shrubs, often with milky sap and fruits or capsule for seeds....
Malvales is the name of an Scientific classification of flowering plants. As circumscribed by Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-system, it includes about 6000 species within nine Scientific classification....
Elaeaocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family contains 605 species of trees and shrubs in 12 genus.The species of Elaeocarpaceae are mostly tropical and subtropical, with a few temperate-zone species....
Tiliaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family is not part of APG II, but it is found all through the botanical literature and remains prominently listed by nomenclatural databases such as IPNI....
Sterculiaceae is a botanical name for a group of flowering plants at the rank of family, which is now widely considered obsolete. As is true for any botanical name, the circumscription, status and placement of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view....
The name Bombacaceae is a botanical name at the rank of family, which is now widely considered obsolete. As is true for any botanical name, circumscription and status of the taxon has varied with taxonomic point of view....
Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. The largest genera in terms of number of species include Hibiscus , Sterculia , Dombeya , Pavonia and Sida ....
Lecythidales is a botanical name at the rank of order . The name was used by the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae. This order included only the family Lecythidaceae, which family now is placed in the order Ericales....
The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants native to tropical South America and Madagascar.According to the most recent molecular analysis of Lecythidaceae there are three subfamilies:...
Nepenthales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. The name was used by the Cronquist system for an order in subclass Dilleniidae, which in the 1981 version of this system included:...
Sarraceniaceae is a family of pitcher plants , belonging to order Ericales .The family comprises three Extant taxon genera, Sarracenia , Darlingtonia californica , and Heliamphora , as well as the extinct Archaeamphora longicervia....
Droseraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is also known under its common name, the sundew family.It consists of carnivorous plants: besides the sundews, the genus Drosera, it also contains the even more famous Venus fly trap, Dionaea muscipula....
Violales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants and takes its name from the included family Violaceae. The name has been used in several list of systems of plant taxonomy, although some systems used the name Parietales for similar groupings....
Flacourtiaceae was a flowering plant family in the Cronquist system and several others of plant classification. It is often complained that Arthur Cronquist had a habit of dumping all the left-over members of an order, the "scraps" that did not clearly fit into any one family in that order with closely related genera, into a single catch-all...
Peridiscaceae is a Neotropics family of flowering plants, consisting of 2 monotypic genera from Amazonia, but according to Soltis et al. the genus Soyauxia from Africa should be placed in this family....
Bixaceae, or the achiote family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants. Under the Cronquist system, it was traditionally placed in the order Violales....
The Cistaceae is a small family of plants known for its beautiful shrubs, which are profusely covered by flowers at the time of blossom. This family consists of about 170-200 species in eight genera, distributed primarily in the temperate areas of Europe and the Mediterranean basin, but also found in North America; a limited number of specie...
Stachyuraceae is a flowering plant family of shrubs and small trees native to East Asia and Southeast Asia. The plants have leaves with Leaf#Margins margins and flowers in long, hanging racemes....
Violaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 800 species in 21 genera. It takes its name from the genus Violet , the violets and pansy.... (violet family)
Tamaricaceae is a flowering plant family containing four genus. In the past, the family was classified in the Violales under the Cronquist system; modern classifications place them in the Caryophyllales.... (tamarind family)
Frankeniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been widely recognized by many taxonomists; it has commonly been assumed to be closely related to family Tamaricaceae....
Dioncophyllaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by few taxonomists. The Cronquist system had placed the family in order Violales....
Ancistrocladaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been widely recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots....
Turneraceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of 120 species in 10 genus. The Cronquist system placed the Turneracids in the order Violales, but under the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification, it belongs to the order Malpighiales....
Passifloraceae is a family of flowering plants, containing about 530 species classified in around 18 genera. They include trees, shrubs, lianas and climbing plants, and are mostly found in tropical regions ....
The Achariaceae is a family of flowering plants, formerly consisting of 6 species in 3 genera of herb and shrubs endemic to southern Africa. More recently, the APG II system has greatly expanded the scope of the family by including many genera previously classified in the Flacourtiaceae....
Cucurbitaceae is a plant family commonly known as melons, gourds or cucurbits and includes crops like cucumbers, squash , luffas, melons and watermelons....
Datiscaceae are a family of Dicotyledonous plants, containing two species of the genus Datisca. Two other genera, Octomeles and Tetrameles are now classified in the Tetramelaceae family....
Salicaceae is a family of flowering plants. Recent genetics studies by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 57 genera....
Salicaceae is a family of flowering plants. Recent genetics studies by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 57 genera....
Capparales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. It was used in the Cronquist system for an order in subclass Dilleniidae and in the Kubitzki system, nowadays....
Capparaceae , commonly known as the Caper family, is a family of plants in order Brassicales. As currently circumscribed, it contains 33 genera and about 700 species....
Batales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. This name was used in several list of systems of plant taxonomy, sometimes in the spelling Batidales....
Gyrostemonaceae is a family of plants in order Brassicales. It comprises 6 genera, totalling about 18 species. All are endemic to temperate parts of Australia....
The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons, including for example tea, persimmon, blueberry, Brazil nut, and azalea. The order includes trees and shrubes, lianas and herbaceous plants....
Cyrillaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The family comprises two genera, each with a single species, Cyrilla and Cliftonia....
Clethraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Asia and the Americas, with one species also on Madeira....
Grubbiaceae is a family of flowering plants endemic to the Cape floristic region of South Africa. The family includes five species of leathery-leaved shrubs in two genus, Grubbia and Strobilocarpus....
The plant family Ericaceae are mostly calcium oxide-hating plants that thrive in acid soils. Many well-known plants of the Ericaceae live in temperate climates, such as cranberry, blueberry, Erica, Calluna vulgaris, huckleberry, azalea and rhododendron....
Pyrolaceae was a small family of flowering plants under the old Cronquist system of plant classification. It included the four genus Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia, and Pyrola, and sometimes also the eight genera formerly usually placed in the family Monotropaceae....
Monotropaceae was a small family of flowering plants under the old Cronquist system of plant classification. It included the eight genus Allotropa, Hemitomes, Monotropa, Monotropsis, Pityopus, Pleuricospora, Pterospora, Sarcodes....
Ebenales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. This name was used in several list of systems of plant taxonomy, for example the Bentham & Hooker system and the Engler system, although the Wettstein system preferred the name Diospyrales'....
Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera ....
The Ebenaceae are a family of flowering plants, which includes ebony and persimmon. The family has approximately 500 species of trees and shrubs in two genus, Diospyros and Euclea....
Styracaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 11 genera and about 160 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing about 250 species native to Asia, Australia and the Americas.Symplocos species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Engrailed....
Primulales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. This name was used in several list of systems of plant taxonomy with little variation in circumscription ....
Theophrastaceae is a small family of flowering plants. In its traditional circumscription, the family consists of five genera and between 90-100 species of trees or shrubs, native to tropical regions of the Americas....
Myrsinaceae, or the Myrsine family, is a rather large family from the order Ericales. It consists of 35 genera and about 1000 species.It is a widespread family belonging to temperate to tropical climates extending north to Europe, Siberia, Japan, Mexico and Florida, and south to New Zealand, South America, and South Africa....
Primulaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 24 genus, including some favorite garden plants and wildflowers. It is also known as the primrose family....
Under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature Rosidae is a botanical name at the rank of Subclass . wiktionary: circumscription of the subclass will vary with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used; the only requirement being that it includes the Family Rosaceae....
Rosales is an order of flowering plants, including nine family , the type family being the rose family Rosaceae. These nine families are those shown by the genetic analysis carried out by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to be related to each other....
The Cunoniaceae is a family of 26 Genus and about 350 species of woody plants in the Antarctic flora, native to Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Zealand, southern South America, the Mascarene Islands and southern Africa....
Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes approximately 200 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9-10 Genus. The species of Pittosporaceae range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Oceania ecozone, and Australasia ecozone ecozones....
Hydrangeaceae is a Family of flowering plants in the order Cornales, with a wide distribution in Asia and North America, and locally in southeastern Europe....
Columelliaceae is a family of trees and shrubs native to the Andes of South America.In the APG II taxonomy they are placed in the order Lamiales, but a 2008 study suggested that they are sister to the Bruniaceae, and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website proposes incorporating this finding by placing both families in order Bruniales....
Bruniaceae is a family of shrubs native to the cape region of South Africa. They are mostly restricted to the Cape Province, but a small number of species occur in KwaZulu-Natal....
Anisophylleaceae is a small family with four genera in the order Cucurbitales, according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. However it is more isolated from the other suprafamilal clades in this order, while it shows some similarities in flower morphology with the genus Ceratopetalum ....
Alseuosmiaceae is a plant family of the order Asterales, found in New Caledonia and New Zealand.They are shrubs with simple, alternate leaves, spiral or whorled, with entire or dentate margins....
The Crassulaceae, or orpine family, is a family of dicotyledons. They store water in their succulent leaves. They are found worldwide, but mostly occur in the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa, typically in dry and/or cold areas where water may be scarce....
Saxifragaceae is a plant family with about 460 known species in 36 genus. In Europe there are 12 genera.The flowers are hermaphrodite and actinomorphic flower....
The Rosaceae or rose family is a large family of plants, with about 3,000-4,000 species in 100-160 genera. Traditionally it has been divided into four subfamilies: Rosoideae, Spiraeoideae, Maloideae, and Amygdaloideae.... (rose family)
Crossosomataceae is a small plant family, consisting of three genus of shrubs found only in the dry parts of the United States southwest and Mexico....
Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 18 genera and about 400 species of leptocaul trees or shrubs. The genus is mostly Tropics or subtropical....
Rhabdodendron is a genus comprising 2?3 species of tropical South American trees.Rhabdodendron is placed in its own family , Rhabdodendraceae, which has only been recognized for the past few decades....
Fabales is an order of flowering plants. It is included in the Rosids group of the eudicots in the APG II system classification system. In the APG II circumscription this order includes the families Fabaceae or legumes , Quillajaceae, Polygalaceae or milkworts , and Surianaceae....
Fabaceae or Leguminosae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, which is commonly known as the legume family, pea family, bean family or pulse family....
Elaeagnaceae, the oleaster family, is a plant family of the order Rosales comprising small trees and shrubs, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical Asia and Australia....
Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants. Mainly restricted to the Southern Hemisphere, it is a fairly large family, with around 80 genus but fewer than 2000 species....
Haloragales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Cronquist system of classification, of 1981, it was placed in subclass Rosidae and had this circumscription:...
Haloragaceae is a family in the order of Saxifragales, of dicotyledon flowering plants. In the Cronquist system, it was included in the order Haloragales, but in the APG II system, it is placed in Saxifragales....
Gunneraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Gunnerales in the clade core eudicots....
The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a basal group within the rosid group of dicotyledons . The following families are typical of newer classifications:...
Sonneratiaceae was a family of flowering plants placed in the order Myrtales by the Cronquist system. It consisted of two genera, Sonneratia and Duabanga....
Lythraceae is a family of flowering plants. It includes 500-600 species of mostly herbs, with some shrubs and trees, in 32 genus. Lythraceae have a worldwide distribution, with most species in the tropics but ranging into temperate climate regions as well....
Crypteroniaceae is a family of flowering plant trees and shrubs. The family includes about 10 species in 3 genus, native to Indomalaya.The Crypteroniaceae are native to tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests....
The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtus, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here....
The Onagraceae, also known as the Willowherb family or Evening Primrose family, is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 640-650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 20-24 genus....
The family Melastomataceae is a taxon of dicots flowering plants found mostly in the tropics comprising some 200 genera and 4500 species. Melastomes are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, or small trees....
Combretaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 20 genus. The family includes the Leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe....
Memecylaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 430 species of trees and shrubs in seven genus. Memecylaceae are widespread in the tropics....
Rhizophoraceae is a family constituted by tropical or subtropical flowering plants. Among the better known members are mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora....
Rhizophoraceae is a family constituted by tropical or subtropical flowering plants. Among the better known members are mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora....
Cornales is an order of flowering plants, basal among the asterids, which are part of the core eudicots. Under the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, it includes the following families:...
Alangiaceae is a small family of small dicotyledon trees, shrubs or lianas, closely related to the Cornaceae .There is only one genus, Alangium, with seventeen species....
The Nyssaceae is a small family of flowering plants related to and often included within the dogwood family . As most commonly circumscribed, the Nyssaceae includes three genera of trees, while a fourth genus has recently been transferred to the family :...
The Dogwood family is a widespread family, mostly in the north temperate zone, in the order Cornales. The family mostly comprises woody shrubs and trees, in about fifteen genera, although which genera properly belong to this family is controversial....
Garryaceae is a small family of dicotyledons, including only two genera:*Garrya. About 16-18 species.*Aucuba. About 3-10 species.The family is found in warm temperate and subtropical regions, Garrya in North America, and Aucuba in eastern Asia....
Santalales is an order of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.Most have seeds without a testa, which is unusual for flowering plants....
Medusandra is a plant genus. It was formerly placed together with Soyauxia in the family Medusandraceaesensu Cronquist , but the APG II system, of 2003 does not recognize such a family and leaves the genus Medusandra unassigned at family and order rank....
Opiliaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. It consists of perhaps a dozen genera, totalling several dozen species of tropical woody plants....
Misodendron is a genus of hemiparasites which grow as mistletoes on various species of Nothofagus. The twelve species are all restricted to South America....
File:Psittacanthus-on-a-tree.jpgLoranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genus and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them Parasitic plant, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit....
Viscaceae is a family of flowering plants. In past decades, several list of systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system....
Balanophoraceae is a subtropical to tropical family of unusual parasitic flowering plants. The plants have an aboveground inflorescence with the overall appearance of a fungus, composed of numerous minute flowers....
Rafflesiales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The name was first published by Daniel Oliver in 1895. The Cronquist system used this name for an order placed in subclass Rosidae with the following wiktionary:circumscription :...
Hydnoraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. This family has been recognised by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Piperales in the clade magnoliids....
Rafflesiaceae is a family of parasitic plants found in east and southeast Asia, including Rafflesia arnoldii, the plant with the largest flower of all plants....
The Celastrales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. Newer classifications include the following three families:...
The Geissolomataceae is a monotypic family of flowering plants native to the Cape Province of South Africa. The plants are xerophytic evergreen shrubs and are known to accumulate aluminum....
The Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genus are tropical, with only Celastrus , Euonymus and Maytenus widespread in temperate climates....
Salvadoraceae is a family in the plant order Brassicales, comprising 3 genera totalling around 12 species. They occur in Africa, including Madagascar; South East Asia; and have also been found on Java, suggesting they are probably found in much of Malesia....
Icacinaceae is a family of trees and lianes found primarily in the tropics.The family was traditionally circumscribed quite broadly, with around 54 genera totalling over 400 species....
The family Cardiopteridaceae is a family of dicotyledons consisting of 7 genus .The APG II system places them in the order Aquifoliales, along with the Holly and Phyllonomaceae....
Dichapetalaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 3 genera and about 200 species. Members of this family are trees, shrubs or lianas found in Tropics and subtropical regions of the world....
Euphorbiales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. Such an order has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.In the APG II system the plants involved are placed in order Malpighiales....
Buxaceae is a small family of four or five genera and about 90-120 species of flowering plants. They are shrubs and small trees, with a cosmopolitan distribution....
Simmondsiaceae or the Jojoba Family is a family of flowering plants. The family is not recognized by all taxonomic systems, the single species, Simmondsia chinensis, often being treated as belonging to family Buxaceae....
The Spurge family is a large family of flowering plants with 300 genera and around 7,500 species. Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are also shrubs or trees....
The Rhamnales are an order of dicotyledon plants. In the Cronquist system, the following families were placed here:* Family Elaeagnaceae ? * Family Leeaceae...
Rhamnaceae, the Buckthorn family, is a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs and some vines.The family contains 50-60 genera and approximately 870-900 species....
Linales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The Cronquist system used this name for an order placed in subclass Rosidae with the following wiktionary:circumscription :...
The Erythroxylaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of 4 genus and at least 250 species. The best-known species is the coca plant , the source of the drug cocaine....
Humiriaceae is a family of evergreen flowering plants. It comprises 8 genera and about 50 species.The family is exclusively Neotropics, except one species found in tropical West Africa....
The Linaceae is a family of flowering plants, mostly herbaceous or rarely woody plants, sometimes large trees in the tropics. The simple entire leaves are almost always alternate, sometimes with stipules....
The Malpighiaceae, a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales, comprises approximately 75 genera and 1300 species of the tropics and subtropics....
Vochysiaceae is a family of evergreen flowering plants, including trees and shrubs. The family consists of about 200 species in eight genera. Six of the eight genera are native to the Neotropics, including Central America and parts of Mexico, and tropical South America....
Trigoniaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 35 species in 4 genera. It is a tropical family found in Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Central America and South America....
The Polygalaceae or Milkwort family is a family of flowering plants in the order Fabales. They have a cosmopolitan range, with about 17 Genus and 900?1,000 species of herbs, shrubs and trees....
Sapindales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. Well-known members of Sapindales include citrus; maples, Horse-chestnut s, lychees and rambutans; mangos and cashews; frankincense and myrrh; and mahogany....
Staphyleaceae is a small family of five genera of flowering plants in the order Crossosomatales, native to the Northern Hemisphere and also in South America....
The Melianthaceae is a family of flowering plants. The APG II system includes them within the rosid clade. All members of the Melianthaceae proper are trees or shrubs found in tropical and southern Africa....
Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. There are about 140-150 genera with 1400-2000 species, including maple, Aesculus and lychee....
Hippocastanaceae is the name given to a small group of trees and shrubs, when this group is treated as a familiy. Its most widespread genus is Aesculus ....
Aceraceae is a family of flowering plants also called the Maple Family. It contains two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120 species of trees and shrubs....
Burseraceae is a moderately sized family of 17-18 genus and about 540 species of flowering plants. The actual numbers differ according to the time period in which a given source is written describing this family....
Anacardiaceae is a Family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an Irritation. Its 82 genera include several of economic importance....
The Simaroubaceae is a small, mostly tropical, family in the order Sapindales. In recent decades it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off....
The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales,They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarpous, apparently bisexual flowers borne in panicles, cymes, spikes, or clusters....
Rutaceae, commonly known as the Rue or Citrus family, is a family of plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents....
The Zygophyllaceae, of about 250 species, are a family of flowering plants, also known as the bean-caper or caltrop family.According to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group , the heterogeneous family Zygophyllaceae is unplaced to order, but included in the Eurosids I as a sister to a clade composed of several orders....
The Geraniales are a small order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. The largest family in the order is the Geraniaceae with over 800 species....
The Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, is a small family of eight genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 900 species in the genus Oxalis ....
Geraniaceae is a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales. The family name is derived from the genus Geranium. It includes both the genus cranesbill and the garden plants called geraniums, which modern botany classifies as genus Pelargonium, along with other related genera....
Limnanthaceae is a family of plants in the order Brassicales. It contains two genera totalling eight species. One of the better known plants in the family is the Poached egg plant ....
The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families given at right are typical of newer classifications, though there is some slight variation, and in particular the Torriceliaceae may be divided....
Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Hedera family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies....
The Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of usually aromatic plants with hollow stems, commonly known as umbellifers. It includes cumin, parsley, carrot, coriander/cilantro, dill, caraway, fennel, parsnip, celery, Queen anne's lace and other relatives....
Asteridae is a botanical name at the rank of Subclass . wiktionary: circumscription of the subclass has varied with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used but by definition always includes the family Asteraceae ....
Gentianales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.The circumscription of Gentiales in the Cronquist system included a broadly defined Loganiaceae , Retziaceae, Gentianaceae, Saccifoliaceae, Apocynaceae, and Asclepiadaceae....
Gentianaceae, or the Gentian family, is a family of flowering plants of 87 genera and over 1500 species. Flowers are actinomorphic and bisexual with fused sepals and petals....
The Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of Angiosperms that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments....
According to Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, the Asclepiadaceae is a former plant family now treated as a subfamily in the Apocynaceae .They form a group of perennial herbs, twining shrubs, lianas or rarely trees but notably also contain a significant number of leafless stem succulents, all belonging to the order Gentianales....
The Solanales are an order of flowering plants, included in the asterid group of dicotyledons. Some older sources used the name Polemoniales for this order....
The Solanaceae is a family of flowering plants, that contains a number of important agricultural plants as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear....
The Convolvulaceae, known commonly as the bindweed or morning glory family , is a group of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species of mostly herbaceous vines, but also trees, shrubs and herbs....
Menyanthaceae are a family of aquatic and wetland plants in the order Asterales. There are approximately 60-70 species in five genus distributed worldwide....
The Polemoniaceae comprises 18-25 genera with between 270-400 species of mostly annual plants, native to the Northern Hemisphere and also South America, with the center of diversity in western North America, especially in California....
Hydrophylloideae is a subfamily of the Boraginaceae family of flowering plants. Their taxonomic position is somewhat uncertain. Traditionally, and under the Cronquist system, they were given family rank under the name Hydrophyllaceae, and treated as part of the order Solanales....
The order Lamiales is a taxon in the Asteridae group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes approximately 11,000 species divided up into about 10 family ....
Lennooideae is a subfamily of parasitic plant flowering plants of south-western North America and north-western South America.The relationships of this subfamily with other plants remains uncertain....
Boraginaceae Juss. 1789, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, includes a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 100 genus found worldwide....
The verbena family or vervain vamily, Verbenaceae, is a family of mainly tropical plants. They are trees, shrubs and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell....
Lamiaceae or Labiatae, also known as the mint family, is a family of plants comprising about 210 genera and some 3,500 species. It has been considered closely related to Verbenaceae but several recent phylogenetic studies have shown that numererous genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae, whereas the core genera of...
Callitrichales Dumort is an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by American botanist Arthur Cronquist in the Cronquist system , the order included three families:...
The Oleaceae, or olive family, is a plant family containing 24 extant genus and around 600 species of mesophytic shrubs, trees and occasionally vines.... (olive family)
Gesneriaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of ca. 150 genera and ca. 3200 species in the Old World and New World tropics and subtropics, with a very small number extending to temperate areas....
The family Acanthaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species.Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes....
Pedaliaceae is a flowering plant family classified in the order Scrophulariales in the Cronquist system and Lamiales in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system....
The Bignoniaceae, or Trumpet Creeper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprising of about 650-750 species in 116-120 genus. Members of the family are mostly trees and shrubs, and more rarely lianas and herbaceous plants in 116-120 genus....
Lentibulariaceae is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts....
Campanulales is a valid botanic name for a plant order. It was used in the Cronquist system as an order within the subclass Asteridae in the class Magnoliopsida flowering plants....
The family Campanulaceae , of the order Asterales, contains about 70 genus and 2000 species. They are mostly herbs, shrubs, and more rarely small trees, which usually have milky non-toxic sap....
The family Stylidiaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It consists of five genera with over 240 species, most of which are endemism to Australia and New Zealand....
The family Goodeniaceae is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola which is pantropical. Its species are found across most of Australia, being especially common in arid and semi-arid climates....
The Rubiales are an order of flowering plants in the Cronquist system, including the families Rubiaceae and Theligonaceae. Newer systems place them within the Gentianales....
Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the madder family, bedstraw family or Coffea family. Other common plants included here are gardenia, cinchona, sweet woodruff, Mitchella, uncaria, ixora, and noni....
The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.Under the Cronquist system, the order included Adoxaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacaceae, and Valerianaceae....
The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa....
The Valerianaceae, or valerian family, of the order Dipsacales contains about 350 species in 7 genera. Plants are generally herbaceous and foliage often has a strong, disagreeable odor....
The Calycerales is a valid botanic name for an order of flowering plants. When accepted, it included the Acicarpha and the Calycera. These are now placed in the Asterales, and Calycerales treated as a synonym of Asterales....
Calyceraceae is a plant family in the order Asterales.The members of the family have simple, alternate leaves and flowers arranged in heads. The flowers have 5 fused petals....
The Asterales are an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae and its related families.The order is cosmopolitic, and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees and shrubs is also present....
The family Asteraceae or Compositae is the largest family of flowering plants, in terms of number of species.The name 'Asteraceae' is derived from the type genus Aster , while 'Compositae', an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in o...
Liliopsida is a botanical name for the Class containing the Family Liliaceae . It is considered synonymous with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli : see author citation ....
Alismatidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass . wiktionary: circumscription of the subclass will vary with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used ; the only requirement being that it includes the family Alismataceae....
Limnocharitaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists. It is sometimes known as the water poppy family....
The Alismataceae or water-plantain family is a family of flowering plants, comprising 11 genera and between 85-95 species. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the greatest number of species in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere....
Hydrocharitales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. A well-known system that used this name is the Cronquist system , for an order in subclass Alismatidae, with this circumscription:...
Hydrocharitaceae is a plant family that includes a number of species of aquatic plant, broadly called the Tape-grasses, and includes the well known Canadian Waterweed and Frog's Bit....
Najadales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. A well-known system that used this name is the Cronquist system , that used this name for an order in subclass Alismatidae with this circumscription:...
Aponogetonaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Alismatales.In recent decades the family has had universally recognition by taxonomists....
Juncaginaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. For the past few decades such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists....
Potamogetonaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Alismatales, with a cosmopolitan distribution.The APG system and APG II system places it in the clade monocots....
Ruppiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots....
Cymodoceaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, sometimes known as the "manatee-grass family". Many taxonomists have not recognized this family....
The flowering plant family Zosteraceae, or the seagrasses, is a family of Marine Perennial plant herbs that grow in coastal waters of temperate and subtropical zones....
Triuridales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. A well-known system that used this name is the Cronquist system , with this circumscription:...
Petrosaviaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only few taxonomists: the plants involved were usually treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae....
Triuridaceae is a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003, does recognize such a family and places it in the order Pandanales, in the clade monocots....
Arecidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass . wiktionary:circumscription of the subclass will vary with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used ; the only requirement being that it includes the family Arecaceae....
Arecales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes ....
Palm or Palmae or Panamea , the palm family, is a family of flowering plants belonging to the Monocotyledon order, Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known Genus with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropics, subtropics, and warm temperate climates.... (palm family)
Pandanales is an order of flowering plants, with a pantropical distribution.The APG II system, which places this in the monocots, the order consists of five families:...
Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics of the Old World. Such a family has been widely recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Pandanales in the clade monocots.... (pandan family)
Arales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. The name was used in the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Arecidae, circumscribed as :...
Araceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like hood....
Lemnaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the duckweed family, as it contains the duckweeds or water lentils. Since duckweeds are now considered to be a branch of the arum or aroid family , the name 'Lemnaceae' is rapidly falling out of use among taxonomists, who treat it as a subfamily called Lemnoideae....
Commelinidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass . wiktionary: circumscription of the subclass will vary with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used ; the only requirement being that it includes the family Commelinaceae....
Commelinales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. It's considered that the Commelinales together with Zingiberales evolved in the Late Cretaceous around 80 millions of years ago....
Rapateaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
Xyridaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by many taxonomists and is known as the Yellow-eyed-grass Family....
Commelinaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants, also known as the spiderwort family. The family has always been recognized by most taxonomists....
Eriocaulales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. The name was published by Nakai. In the Cronquist system the name was used for an order placed in the subclass Commelinidae....
The Eriocaulaceae or pipewort family is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Poales. The family is large, with about 1,150-1,200 species described in ten genera....
Restionales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Cronquist system it is used for an order and circumscribed as:* order Restionales...
Flagellariaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has rarely been recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
Joinvilleaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has rarely been recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots....
Centrolepidaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognises such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots....
Juncales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Engler system and in the Cronquist system it is circumscribed as:* order Juncales...
The Juncaceae, the rush family, is a rather small monocotyledon flowering plant family. There are 8 genus and about 400 species. Many of these slow-growing plants superficially resemble Poaceae, though are herbs or Shrub, growing on infertile soils....
Thurniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
Cyperales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. As used in the Engler system and in the Wettstein system it consisted of only the single family....
The family Cyperaceae, or the sedges, is a taxon of monocotyledon flowering plants that superficially resemble Poaceae or Juncaceae. The family is large, with some 4,000 species described in about 70 genera....
Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the Magnoliophyta. Plants of this family are usually called grasses; the shrub- or tree-like plants in this family are called bamboo .... (Grass family)
Hydatellales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Cronquist system, 1981, the name was used for an order placed in the subclass Commelinidae in class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons]....
Hydatellaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants containing the genus Trithuria, which has been recently re-classified to include the genus Hydatella....
Typhales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. In the Cronquist system the name was used for an order placed in the subclass Commelinidae....
Sparganiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family was previously recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
Typhaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
Zingiberidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass . wiktionary: circumscription of the subclass will vary with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used ; the only requirement being that it includes the family Zingiberaceae....
The Bromeliales is the botanical name of an Order of flowering plants. Such an order has been recognized by a few list of systems of plant taxonomy of plant taxonomy, with a various placement....
Bromeliaceae is a Family of monocot flowering plants of around 2,400 species native mainly to the Tropics Americas, with a few species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa....
Zingiberales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades. This order includes many familiar plants like ginger, cardamom, turmeric, galangal and myoga of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family, and bananas and plantains of the Musaceae or banana family, along with...
Strelitziaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The plants are very similar in appearance and growth habit to members of the related families Heliconiaceae and Musaceae ....
Musaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be woody trees....
Orchidantha is a genus of flowering plants, often given its own family , Lowiaceae. It includes the plants in the formerly recognised genera Lowia, Protamomum and Wolfia....
Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial plant herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising ca.... (Ginger family)
Costaceae or the Costus Family is a family of pantropical monocots. They belong to the order Zingiberales, which contains other horticulturally and economically important plants such as the banana , Strelitzia reginae , and edible ginger ....
The Marantaceae or arrowroot family is a family of flowering plants known for its large starchy rhizomes. It is sometimes called the prayer-plant family....
Liliidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass . wiktionary: circumscription of the subclass will vary with the wiktionary:taxonomic system being used ; the only requirement being that it includes the family Liliaceae....
Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae, but both the family and the order have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another....
Philydraceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Commelinales, in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
Pontederiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants.The APG II system, of 2003 places the family in the order Commelinales, in the commelinid clade, in the monocots....
Haemodoraceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by many taxonomists. It is sometimes known as the "Bloodwort family"....
The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of monocotyledons in the order Liliales. Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins but with several having net venation , and flower arranged in threes.... (Lily family)
Iridaceae is a family of plants in Order Asparagales, taking its name from the Iris . It includes a number of other well known cultivated plants, such as the Freesia, the Gladiolus and the Crocus.... (Iris family)
Velloziaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Pandanales in the clade monocots....
Agavaceae is a family of plants that includes many well-known desert and dry zone types such as the agave, yucca, and Yucca brevifolia. The family includes about 550-600 species in around 18 genus, and is widespread in the tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of the world....
Xanthorrhoeaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but the wiktionary:circumscription of the family has varied wildly....
Hanguanaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 does recognize such a family and places it in the order Commelinales, in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
Stemonaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of three or four genera with between 25-35 species. The APG II system places it in the order Pandanales, in the monocots....
Smilacaceae, the greenbrier family, is a family of flowering plants. Up to some decades ago the genera now included in family Smilacaceae were often assigned to a more broadly defined family Liliaceae, but for the past twenty to thirty years most botanists have accepted Smilacaceae as a distinct family....
Dioscoreaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 750 species in eight or nine genus. The best-known member of the family is the yam ....
Orchidales is a botanical name of an Order of flowering plants. In list of systems of plant taxonomy, this is a relatively recent name, as early systems used descriptive botanical names for the order containing the orchids....
Burmanniaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants, consisting of about a hundred species of herbaceous plants in roughly a dozen genera....
Corsiaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. This is a slight change from the APG system, of 1998, which left the family unplaced as to order, but did assign it to this same clade....
Orchidaceae is the largest Family of the flowering plants . Its name is derived from the genus Orchis.The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew list 880 genus and nearly 22,000 accepted species, but the exact number is unknown because of taxonomic disputes.... (Orchid family)
