Bruniales is an order of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s. Until recently it was not recognized as an order, but a 2008 study suggested that
Bruniaceae and
Columelliaceae are sister clades.
The latest revision of the
APG system,
APG III
The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG). Published in 2009, it was superseded in 2016 by a fur ...
, places both families as the only members of the order Bruniales, which is sister to the
Apiales, and one of the
asterid taxa.
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The APG III phylogenetic tree for the asterids is:
]
References
Angiosperm orders
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