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The Garryales are a small order
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The Garryales are a small order
Order (biology)

In Biological classification used in biology, the order is a taxonomic rank between class and family . The superorder is a rank between class and order....
 of 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, including only two families and three genera:

  • Family Garryaceae
    Garryaceae

    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....
    • Garrya
      Garrya

      Garrya is a genus of about 18 species of flowering plants in the family Garryaceae, native to North America and Central America and the Caribbean....
    • Aucuba
      Aucuba

      Aucuba is a genus of three to ten species of flowering plants, now placed in the family Garryaceae, although formerly classed in the Aucubaceae or Cornaceae....
  • Family Eucommiaceae
    • Eucommia
      Eucommia

      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 ....


These belong among the asterids. Under 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 ....
, the Garryaceae were placed among the Cornales
Cornales

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:...
. The Eucommiaceae were given their own order and placed among the Hamamelidae.