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The Myrtales are an order of flowering plant
Flowering plant

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 placed as a basal group within the rosid 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 (not a member of eurosids Ior eurosids II). The following families are typical of newer classifications:










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The Myrtales are an order of flowering plant
Flowering plant

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 placed as a basal group within the rosid 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 (not a member of eurosids Ior eurosids II). The following families are typical of newer classifications:

  • Family Alzateaceae
  • Family Combretaceae
    Combretaceae

    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....
     (leadwood
    Combretum imberbe

    File:Combretum imberbe00.jpgThe semi-deciduous Leadwood tree is found from KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa in the south to Tanzania in the north....
     family)
  • Family Crypteroniaceae
    Crypteroniaceae

    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....
  • Family Heteropyxidaceae
  • Family Lythraceae
    Lythraceae

    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....
     (loosestrife
    Loosestrife

    Loosestrife is the common name of a number of different flowering plants. The species belong to two taxonomic genus, Lythrum, within the family Lythraceae, and Lysimachia, within the family Primulaceae....
     and pomegranate
    Pomegranate

    The pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to between five and eight metres tall. The pomegranate is native to the region from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and has been cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean Basin region and the Caucasus since ancient times....
     family)
  • Family Melastomataceae
    Melastomataceae

    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....
  • Family Memecylaceae
    Memecylaceae

    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....
  • Family Myrtaceae
    Myrtaceae

    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....
     (myrtle
    Myrtle

    The Myrtle is a genus of one or two species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, native to southern Europe and north Africa. They are evergreen shrubs or small trees, growing to 5 m tall....
     family)
  • Family Oliniaceae
  • Family Onagraceae
    Onagraceae

    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....
     (evening primrose
    Evening Primrose

    Evening Primrose is a musical theatre with a book by James Goldman and lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim.Based on a John Collier short story published in the 1951 collection Fancies and Goodnights, it focuses on a poet who takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a department store after closing....
     family)
  • Family Penaeaceae
    Penaeaceae

    Penaeaceae is a family of evergreen, leathery-leaved shrubs and small trees, native to South Africa. The family has 25 species in seven Genus....
  • Family Psiloxylaceae
    Psiloxylon

    Psiloxylon mauritianum is species of flowering plant, the sole species of family Psiloxylaceae. It is endemic to the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean....
  • Family Rhynchocalycaceae
  • Family Vochysiaceae
    Vochysiaceae

    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....


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 ....
 gives essentially the same composition, except the Vochysiaceae
Vochysiaceae

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....
 are removed to the order Polygalales, and the Thymelaeaceae
Thymelaeaceae

Thymelaeaceae is a family of flowering plants. It was established in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.Thymelaeaceae is in the order Malvales....
 are included. The families Sonneratiaceae
Sonneratiaceae

Sonneratiaceae was a family of flowering plants placed in the order Myrtales by the Cronquist system. It consisted of two genera, Sonneratia and Duabanga....
, Trapaceae, and Punicaceae are removed from the Lythraceae, while the Psioxylaceae and Heteropyxidaceae are treated within the Myrtaceae, and the Memecyclaceae within the Melastomataceae.

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