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The Oxalidales are an 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 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, included within the rosid subgroup 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. The following families are typically placed here:



The Cephalotaceae family contains a single species, a pitcher plant
Pitcher plant

Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with natural selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over evolutionary time....
 found in Southwest Australia
Southwest Australia

Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean climate, one of five such regions in the world....
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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 ....
, most of the above families were placed in the Rosales
Rosales

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 Oxalidaceae were placed in the Geraniales
Geraniales

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....
, and the Elaeocarpaceae split between the Malvales
Malvales

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....
 and Polygalales, in the latter case being treated as the Tremandraceae
Tremandraceae

Tremandraceae is a botany family of flowering plants.External links...
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The Oxalidales are an 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 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, included within the rosid subgroup 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. The following families are typically placed here:

  • Family Brunellia
    Brunellia

    Brunellia is a genus of plant in the family Brunelliaceae. It consists of 79 species which grow in the mountainous regions from southern Mexico to Bolivia....
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  • Family Cephalotaceae
    Cephalotus

    Cephalotus is a genus of flowering plants which contains one species, Cephalotus follicularis. Common names for this small carnivorous plant include Albany Pitcher Plant, Western Australian Pitcher Plant, fly-catcher plant or mocassin plant, which are given for the pit-fall traps of the modified leaves....
     (Cephalotus follicularis)
  • Family Connaraceae
    Connaraceae

    The Connaraceae is a family of 16 Genus and about 350 species....
    Family Cunoniaceae
    Cunoniaceae

    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....
  • Family Elaeocarpaceae
    Elaeocarpaceae

    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....
  • Family Oxalidaceae
    Oxalidaceae

    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 ....
     (wood sorrel family)


The Cephalotaceae family contains a single species, a pitcher plant
Pitcher plant

Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with natural selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over evolutionary time....
 found in Southwest Australia
Southwest Australia

Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean climate, one of five such regions in the world....
.

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 ....
, most of the above families were placed in the Rosales
Rosales

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 Oxalidaceae were placed in the Geraniales
Geraniales

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....
, and the Elaeocarpaceae split between the Malvales
Malvales

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....
 and Polygalales, in the latter case being treated as the Tremandraceae
Tremandraceae

Tremandraceae is a botany family of flowering plants.External links...
.