The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte.... s, included within the asterid group 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.
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 .... included a broadly defined Loganiaceae
Loganiaceae
Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes 13 genus, distributed around the world's tropics.... (since broken up into several families), Retziaceae, Gentianaceae
Gentianaceae
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.... , Saccifoliaceae, Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae
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.... , and Asclepiadaceae
Asclepiadaceae
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 circumscription recognized by 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.... (APG) includes Apocynaceae (including Asclepiadaceae), Gelsemiaceae
Gelsemiaceae
Gelsemiaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Gentianales. The family contains only two genera: Gelsemium and Mostuea.... (segregated from Loganiaceae), Gentianaceae (including Saccifoliaceae), Loganiaceae, and Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
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.... .
Under the APG definition some well-known members of Gentianales are coffee
Coffea
Coffea is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are shrubs or small trees, native to subtropical Africa and southern Asia.... , gardenia
Gardenia
Gardenia is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, Australasia ecozone and Oceania ecozone.... s, and frangipani.
APG includes Retziaceae in Stilbaceae (order Lamiales
Lamiales
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 .... ).
