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Rosopsida Batsch 1788 is a botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 for a group 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 recognized at the rank of class. The name is derived from that of the included family Rosaceae
Rosaceae

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....
. The name has not been used in most of the more influential recent classification systems, such as 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 Thorne system, the Takhtajan system
Takhtajan system

A list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Takhtajan system of plant classification was published by Armen Takhtajan, in several versions from the 1950's onwards....
 or the APG II system. As circumscribed in the Reveal system
Reveal system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Reveal system of plant classification was drawn up by the botanist J.L. Reveal , professor emeritus at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland ....
 it is a subset of the dicots, a paraphyletic group recognized at various ranks in other systems, and includes:

subclass Caryophyllidae
Caryophyllidae

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....
subclass Hamamelididae
Hamamelididae

Hamamelididae is a botanical name at the rank of Subclass . A well-known system that used this name is the Cronquist system, although in the disallowed spelling Hamamelidae....
subclass Dilleniidae
Dilleniidae

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....
subclass Rosidae
Rosidae

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....
subclass Cornidae
subclass Lamiidae
subclass Asteridae
Asteridae

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 ....






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Rosopsida Batsch 1788 is a botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 for a group 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 recognized at the rank of class. The name is derived from that of the included family Rosaceae
Rosaceae

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....
. The name has not been used in most of the more influential recent classification systems, such as 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 Thorne system, the Takhtajan system
Takhtajan system

A list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Takhtajan system of plant classification was published by Armen Takhtajan, in several versions from the 1950's onwards....
 or the APG II system. As circumscribed in the Reveal system
Reveal system

A modern list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Reveal system of plant classification was drawn up by the botanist J.L. Reveal , professor emeritus at the Norton Brown Herbarium, Maryland ....
 it is a subset of the dicots, a paraphyletic group recognized at various ranks in other systems, and includes:

subclass Caryophyllidae
Caryophyllidae

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....
subclass Hamamelididae
Hamamelididae

Hamamelididae is a botanical name at the rank of Subclass . A well-known system that used this name is the Cronquist system, although in the disallowed spelling Hamamelidae....
subclass Dilleniidae
Dilleniidae

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....
subclass Rosidae
Rosidae

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....
subclass Cornidae
subclass Lamiidae
subclass Asteridae
Asteridae

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 ....


Reveal's circumscription of the group corresponds largely to Cronquist's class 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....
 (but minus subclass Magnoliidae
Magnoliidae

Magnoliidae are a group of about 9,000 species of flowering plants, including magnolias, nutmeg, bay laurel, cinnamon, avocado, black pepper, and many others....
) and to the eudicots
Eudicots

Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton to refer to a group of flowering plants that had been called "tricolpates" or "non-Magnoliid dicots" by previous authors....
 of the APG II system minus Ranunculales
Ranunculales

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....
 and some other early-branching groups.