One of the modern

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, the Dahlgren system was published by monocot specialist Rolf Dahlgren in 1975 and revised in 1977, and 1980. However, he is best known for his two treatises on monocotyledons in 1982 and revised in 1985. His wife Gertrud Dahlgren continued the work after his death. Dahlgren ranked the dicotyledons and monocotyledons as

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of the class of flowering plants ( angiosperms) and further divided them into

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. Originally (1975) he used the

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''-anae'', as did Cronquist, to designate these, but in 1980 changed this to ''-florae'' in accordance with Thorne. In the 1989 revision, published by his wife, the alternate names Magnoliidae and Liliidae were dropped in favour of Dicotyledon and Monocotyledon, and the suffix ''-florae'' reverted to ''-anae'' (''e.g.'' Alismatanae for Alismatiflorae). Reveal provides an extensive listing of Dahlgren's classification.JL Reveal:Dahlgren System of Angiosperm Classification 1997
/ref> (Note the synonyms, both nomenclatural and taxonomic, for each name in the system.)

1980 system

Summary

* Class Magnoliopsida (flowering plants (

Angiospermae Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

or Magnoliophyta) *: Subclass Magnoliidae (dicotyledons) 24 superorders **: Superorder Magnoliiflorae **: Superorder Nymphaeiflorae **: Superorder

Ranunculiflorae Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group know ...

**: Superorder Caryophylliflorae **: Superorder Polygoniflorae **: Superorder Malviflorae **: Superorder Violiflorae **: Superorder Theiflorae **: Superorder Primuliflorae **: Superorder Rosiflorae **: Superorder Podostemiflorae **: Superorder Fabiflorae **: Superorder Proteiflorae **: Superorder Myrtiflorae **: Superorder Rutiflorae **: Superorder Santaliflorae **: Superorder Balanophoriflorae **: Superorder

Araliiflorae The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families are those recognized in the APG III system. This is typical of the newer classifications, though there is some slight variation and in particular, the Torriceliaceae may also be divided ...

**: Superorder Asteriflorae **: Superorder

Solaniflorae The Solanales are an order of flowering plants, included in the asterid group of dicotyledons. Some older sources used the name Polemoniales for this order. Taxonomy Under the older Cronquist system, the latter three families were placed else ...

**: Superorder Corniflorae **: Superorder

Loasiflorae Loasaceae is a family of 15–20 genera and about 200–260 species of flowering plants in the order Cornales, native to the Americas and Africa. Members of the family include annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants, and a few shrubs an ...

**: Superorder

Gentianiflorae Gentianales is an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid clade of eudicots. It comprises more than 20,000 species in about 1,200 genera in 5 families. More than 80% of the species in this order belong to the family Rubiaceae. Ma ...

**: Superorder

Lamiiflorae The order Lamiales (also known as the mint order) are an order in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes about 23,810 species, 1,059 genera, and is divided into about 25 families. These families include Acanthaceae, ...

*: Subclass Liliidae (monocotyledons) 7 superorders **: Superorder Alismatiflorae **: Superorder

Triuridiflorae Triuridales was an order of flower plants that was used in the Cronquist system, in the subclass Alismatidae, with this circumscription: * order Triuridales *: family Petrosaviaceae *: family Triuridaceae In the classification system of Dahl ...

**: Superorder

Ariflorae ''Arales'' is an order of flowering plants. The name was used in the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass ''Arecidae'', circumscribed as (1981): * order ''Arales'' *: family ''Acoraceae'' *: family ''Araceae'' *: family ''Lemnaceae'' ...

**: Superorder

Liliiflorae Lilianae (also known as Liliiflorae) is a botanical name for a superorder (that is, a rank higher than that of order) of flowering plants. Such a superorder of necessity includes the type family Liliaceae (and usually the type order Liliales) ...

**: Superorder

Zingiberiflorae The Zingiberales are flowering plants forming one of four orders in the commelinids clade of monocots, together with its sister order, Commelinales. The order includes 68 genera and 2,600 species. Zingiberales are a unique though morphologi ...

**: Superorder

Commeliniflorae Commelinales is an order of flowering plants. It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae. All the families combined contain over 885 species in about 70 genera; the majority of speci ...

**: Superorder

Areciflorae Arecales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised only for the past few decades; until then, the accepted name for the order including these plants was Principes. Taxonomy The APG IV system of 2016 places Dasypogona ...

Magnoliidae (dicotyledons)

*: Subclass Magnoliiflorae *:: Superorder Magnolianae *::: Order

Annonales The Magnoliales are an order of flowering plants. Classification The Magnoliales include six families: * Annonaceae (custard apple family, over 2000 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas; mostly tropical but some temperate) * Degeneriaceae (two ...

*:::: Family Annonaceae *:::: Family Myristicaceae *:::: Family Eupomatiaceae *:::: Family Canellaceae *:::: Family Austrobaileyaceae *::: Order

Aristolochiales Aristolochiales is an order of flowering plants. It is not recognised in the APG or APG II systems, in which it is considered a synonym of Piperales. It also is not recognized in the Thorne system. In the Cronquist, Dahlgren, Goldberg and R ...

*:::: Family Aristolochiaceae *::: Order Rafflesiales *:::: Family Rafflesiaceae *:::: Family Hydnoraceae *::: Order Magnoliales *:::: Family Degeneriaceae *:::: Family Himantandraceae *:::: Family Magnoliaceae *::: Order Lactoridales *:::: Family Lactoridaceae *::: Order

Winterales Canellales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants, one of the four orders of the magnoliids. It is recognized by the most recent classification of flowering plants, the APG IV system. It is defined to contain two families: C ...

*:::: Family Winteraceae *::: Order Chloranthales *:::: Family Chloranthaceae *::: Order

Illiciales Illiciales is an order of flowering plants that is not recognized by the current most widely used system of plant classification, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group's APG III system. The order was comprised differently in various systems of plant ...

*:::: Family Illiciaceae *:::: Family Schisandraceae *::: Order Laurales *:::: Family Amborellaceae *:::: Family Trimeniaceae *:::: Family Monimiaceae *:::: Family Gomortegaceae *:::: Family Calycanthaceae *:::: Family

Lauraceae Lauraceae, or the laurels, is a plant family that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives. This family comprises about 2850 known species in about 45 genera worldwide (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ). They are dicotyledons, and occur ma ...

*::: Order Nelumbonales *:::: Family Nelumbonaceae *:: Superorder Nymphaeiflorae *::: Order Piperales *:::: Family Saururaceae *:::: Family Piperaceae *::: Order Nymphaeales *:::: Family Cabombaceae *:::: Family

Nymphaeaceae Nymphaeaceae () is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains nine genera with about 70 known species. Water li ...

*:::: Family Ceratophyllaceae *:: Superorder

*::: Order Ranunculales *:::: Family Lardizabalaceae *:::: Family Sargentodoxaceae *:::: Family Menispermaceae *:::: Family Kingdoniaceae *:::: Family

Circaeasteraceae Circaeasteraceae is a family of two species of herbaceous plants native to China and the Himalayas. The family has been recognized by many taxonomists. The APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998), recognizes it and plac ...

*:::: Family Ranunculaceae *:::: Family Hydrastidaceae *:::: Family Berberidaceae *::: Order Papaverales *:::: Family Papaveraceae *:::: Family

Fumariaceae Fumarioideae is a subfamily of the family Papaveraceae (the poppy family). It was formerly treated as a separate family, the Fumariaceae (the fumitory, fumewort or bleeding-heart family). It consists of about 575 species of herbaceous plants in ...

*:: Superorder Caryophylliflorae *::: Order Caryophyllales *:::: Family Molluginaceae *:::: Family Caryophyllaceae *:::: Family Phytolaccaceae *:::: Family Achatocarpaceae *:::: Family Agdestidaceae *:::: Family Basellaceae *:::: Family Portulacaceae *:::: Family

Stegnospermataceae ''Stegnosperma'' is a genus of flowering plants, consisting of three species of woody plants, native to the Caribbean, Central America, and the Sonoran Desert. These are shrubs or lianas, with anomalous secondary thickening in mature stems, by ...

*:::: Family Nyctaginaceae *:::: Family Aizoaceae *:::: Family

Halophytaceae ''Halophytum ameghinoi'' is a species of herbaceous plant endemic to Patagonia. It is the only species in the genus ''Halophytum''. It is a succulent annual plant, with simple, fleshy, alternate leaves. The plants are monoecious, with solitar ...

*:::: Family Cactaceae *:::: Family Didiereaceae *:::: Family Hectorellaceae *:::: Family Chenopodiaceae *:::: Family Amaranthaceae *:: Superorder Polygoniflorae *::: Order Polygonales *:::: Family Polygonaceae *:: Superorder Malviflorae *::: Order Malvales *:::: Family Sterculiaceae *:::: Family Plagiopteraceae *:::: Family

Bixaceae The Bixaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants commonly called the achiote family. Under the Cronquist system, the family was traditionally placed in the order Violales. However, newer arrangements move it, with some other families previousl ...

*:::: Family Cochlospermaceae *:::: Family Cistaceae *:::: Family

Sphaerosepalaceae The Sphaerosepalaceae are a family of flowering plants including 14 species of trees and shrubs in two genera, ''Dialyceras'' and ''Rhopalocarpus ''Rhopalocarpus'' is a genus of plants in the family Sphaerosepalaceae. Most species are tree ...

*:::: Family

Sarcolaenaceae The Sarcolaenaceae are a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar. The family includes 79 species of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs in ten genera. Recent DNA studies indicate that the Sarcolaenaceae are a sibling taxon to the family ...

*:::: Family Huaceae *:::: Family

Tiliaceae Tiliaceae () is a family of flowering plants. It is not a part of the APG, APG II and APG III classifications, being sunk in Malvaceae mostly as the subfamilies Tilioideae, Brownlowioideae and Grewioideae, but has an extensive historical r ...

*:::: Family

Dipterocarpaceae Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 16 genera and about 695 known species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus ''Dipterocarpus'', is derived from Greek (''di'' = two, ''pteron'' = wing and ''karpos'' = fru ...

*:::: Family Bombacaceae *:::: Family Malvaceae *::: Order Urticales *:::: Family Ulmaceae *:::: Family Moraceae *:::: Family Cecropiaceae *:::: Family

Barbeyaceae ''Barbeya'' is the only genus in the family Barbeyaceae, and has only one species, ''Barbeya oleoides''. It is a small tree native to the mountains of Somalia, Ethiopia, and the Arabian Peninsula. It can be found locally abundant in the transitio ...

*:::: Family Cannabaceae *:::: Family Urticaceae *::: Order Euphorbiales *:::: Family Euphorbiaceae *:::: Family Simmondsiaceae *:::: Family Pandaceae *:::: Family

Aextoxicaceae ''Aextoxicon punctatum'', the sole species of genus ''Aextoxicon'' and family Aextoxicaceae, is a dioecious tree native to southern Chile and Argentina. Commonly known as the ''olivillo'' or ''aceitunillo'', it is a large evergreen tree native to ...

*:::: Family Dichapetalaceae *::: Order Plumbaginales *:::: Family Plumbaginaceae *:::: Family Limoniaceae *::: Order Thymelaeales *:::: Family Gonystylaceae *:::: Family Thymelaeaceae *::: Order

Rhamnales The Rhamnales Lindl. are an order of dicotyledon plants in the subclass Rosidae. In the Cronquist system, the following families were placed here: * Family Elaeagnaceae – (Oleaster family) * Family Leeaceae * Family Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family) ...

*:::: Family

Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...

*:: Superorder Violiflorae *::: Order Violales *:::: Family Flacourtiaceae *:::: Family

Berberidopsidaceae Berberidopsidaceae is a family of flowering plants. Such a family has only recently been recognized by more than a few taxonomists: the plants involved have often been treated as belonging to family Flacourtiaceae. The APG II system, of 2003 (un ...

*:::: Family Aphloiaceae *:::: Family Physenaceae *:::: Family Passifloraceae *:::: Family Dipentodontaceae *:::: Family Peridiscaceae *:::: Family

Scyphostegiaceae ''Scyphostegia borneensis'' is a species of shrub or small tree endemic to Borneo. This unusual plant is the only species in the genus ''Scyphostegia''. In many taxonomic classifications the genus was placed in its own family, the Scyphostegiacea ...

*:::: Family

Violaceae Violaceae is a family of flowering plants established in 1802, consisting of about 1000 species in about 25 genera. It takes its name from the genus ''Viola'', the violets and pansies. Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed ...

*:::: Family Turneraceae *:::: Family Malesherbiaceae *:::: Family

Caricaceae The Caricaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, found primarily in tropical regions of Central and South America and Africa. They are usually short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small to medium-sized trees growi ...

*::: Order Cucurbitales *:::: Family Achariaceae *:::: Family Cucurbitaceae *:::: Family Begoniaceae *:::: Family Datiscaceae *::: Order

Salicales The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') included the willows, poplar, aspen, and cottonwoods. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly ...

*:::: Family Salicaceae *::: Order Tamaricales *:::: Family Tamaricaceae *:::: Family Frankeniaceae *::: Order Capparales *:::: Family Capparaceae *:::: Family Brassicaceae *:::: Family Tovariaceae *:::: Family Resedaceae *:::: Family Gyrostemonaceae *:::: Family

Bataceae ''Batis'' (turtleweed, saltwort, beachwort, or pickleweed) is a genus of two species of flowering plants, the only genus in the family Bataceae. They are halophytic (salt tolerant) plants, native to the coastal salt marshes of warm temperate ...

*:::: Family Moringaceae *::: Order Tropaeolales *:::: Family Tropaeolaceae *:::: Family Limnanthaceae *::: Order Salvadorales *:::: Family Salvadoraceae *::Superorder Theiflorae *::: Order Dilleniales *:::: Family Dilleniaceae *::: Order

Paeoniales The peony or paeony is a flowering plant in the genus ''Paeonia'' , the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae . Peonies are native to Asia, Europe and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguished, ...

*:::: Family Glaucidiaceae *:::: Family Paeoniaceae *::: Order Theales *:::: Family

Stachyuraceae ''Stachyurus'' is the only genus in the flowering plant family Stachyuraceae, native to the Himalayas and eastern Asia. They are deciduous shrubs or small trees with pendent racemes of 4-petalled flowers which appear on the bare branches before t ...

*:::: Family Pentaphylacaceae *:::: Family Marcgraviaceae *:::: Family

Quiinaceae Quiinaceae Engl. is a neotropical family of flowering plants in the Malpighiales, consisting of about 50 species in 4 genera (''Froesia'', ''Lacunaria'', ''Quiina'', '' Touroulia''). The APG III system of flowering plant classification does not ...

*:::: Family Ancistrocladaceae *:::: Family Dioncophyllaceae *:::: Family

Nepenthaceae ''Nepenthes'' () is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mos ...

*:::: Family Medusagynaceae *:::: Family Caryocaraceae *:::: Family Strasburgeriaceae *:::: Family Ochnaceae *:::: Family Chrysobalanaceae *:::: Family

Oncothecaceae ''Oncotheca'' is a genus of tree endemic to New Caledonia. There are two species, '' Oncotheca balansae'' and '' Oncotheca humboldtiana''. ''Oncotheca'' is the sole genus of the Oncothecaceae, which is one of three families of flowering plants ...

*:::: Family Scytopetalaceae *:::: Family Theaceae *:::: Family

Bonnetiaceae Bonnetiaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 4 genera and 41 species. The family is Neotropical, with the exception of the genus ''Ploiarium'', which is found in Malesia. It is sister to the family Clusiaceae The Clusiaceae or ...

*:::: Family Clusiaceae *:::: Family

Elatinaceae Elatinaceae is a family of flowering plants with ca 35 (to perhaps 50) species in two genera: ''Elatine'' and ''Bergia''. The ''Elatine'' are mostly aquatic herbs, and the ''Bergia'' are subshrubs to shrubs. ''Elatine'' species are widely distri ...

*::: Order Lecythidales *:::: Family Lecythidaceae *:: Superorder Primuliflorae *::: Order Primulales *:::: Family Myrsinaceae *:::: Family Aegicerataceae *:::: Family Theophrastaceae *:::: Family Primulaceae *:::: Family Coridaceae *::: Order Ebenales *:::: Family Sapotaceae *:::: Family

Styracaceae The Styracaceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 12 genera and about 160 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The family is c ...

*:::: Family Lissocarpaceae *:::: Family

Ebenaceae The Ebenaceae are a family of flowering plants belonging to order Ericales. The family includes ebony and persimmon among about 768 species of trees and shrubs. It is distributed across the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world. It ...

*:: Superorder Rosiflorae *::: Order Trochodendrales *:::: Family Trochodendraceae *:::: Family

Tetracentraceae Trochodendraceae is the only family of flowering plants in the order Trochodendrales. It comprises two extant genera, each with a single species along with up to five additional extinct genera and a number of extinct species. The living specie ...

*::: Order Cercidiphyllales *:::: Family

Cercidiphyllaceae ''Cercidiphyllum'' is a genus containing two species of plants, both commonly called katsura. They are the sole members of the monotypic family Cercidiphyllaceae. The genus is native to Japan and China and unrelated to ''Cercis'' (redbuds). Desc ...

*:::: Family

Eupteleaceae ''Euptelea'' is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the monogeneric family Eupteleaceae. The genus is found from Assam east through China to Japan, and consists of shrubs or small trees: *''Euptelea pleiosperma'' *''Euptelea polyandra' ...

*::: Order Hamamelidales *:::: Family Hamamelidaceae *:::: Family Platanaceae *:::: Family Myrothamnaceae *::: Order Balanopales *:::: Family Balanopaceae *::: Order Fagales *:::: Family Nothofagaceae *:::: Family

Fagaceae The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as evergre ...

*:::: Family

Corylaceae Coryloideae is a subfamily in the woody angiosperm family Betulaceae, commonly known as the birch family, and consists of four extant genera - '' Corylus'' L., '' Ostryopsis'' Decne., '' Carpinus'' L., and '' Ostrya'' Scop. These deciduous tre ...

*:::: Family Betulaceae *::: Order

Juglandales Juglandales is an order of flowering plants. This order was recognised in several systems (e.g. Engler system and Wettstein system). The Cronquist system placed the order in the subclass Hamamelidae, as comprising the families Juglandaceae a ...

*:::: Family

Rhoipteleaceae ''Rhoiptelea'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Juglandaceae. It contains a single species, ''Rhoiptelea chiliantha'', commonly known as the horsetail tree. This genus was previously recognized in its own family, Rhoipteleac ...

*:::: Family Juglandaceae *::: Order Myricales *:::: Family Myricaceae *::: Order

Casuarinales The Casuarinaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of four genera and 91 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and the Pacific Is ...

*:::: Family Casuarinaceae *::: Order Buxales *:::: Family Buxaceae *:::: Family Daphniphyllaceae *:::: Family Didymelaceae *::: Order Geissolomatales *:::: Family Geissolomataceae *::: Order Cunoniales *:::: Family Cunoniaceae *:::: Family

Baueraceae Cunoniaceae is a family of 27 genera and about 335 species of woody plants in the order Oxalidales, mostly found in the tropical and wet temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere. The greatest diversity of genera are in Australia and Tasmania ...

*:::: Family

Brunelliaceae ''Brunellia'' is a genus of trees. They are distributed in the mountainous regions of southern Mexico, Central America, West Indies, and South America. ''Brunellia'' is the only genus in the family Brunelliaceae. As of 2001 there were about ...

*:::: Family

Davidsoniaceae Cunoniaceae is a family of 27 genera and about 335 species of woody plants in the order Oxalidales, mostly found in the tropical and wet temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere. The greatest diversity of genera are in Australia and Tasmania ...

*:::: Family

Eucryphiaceae Cunoniaceae is a family of 27 genera and about 335 species of woody plants in the order Oxalidales, mostly found in the tropical and wet temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere. The greatest diversity of genera are in Australia and Tasmania ...

*:::: Family Bruniaceae *:::: Family Grubbiaceae *::: Order Saxifragales *:::: Family Saxifragaceae *:::: Family Francoaceae *:::: Family

Greyiaceae The Francoaceae are a small family of flowering plants in the order Geraniales, including the genera '' Francoa'', commonly known as bridal wreaths, and '' Tetilla''. The Francoaceae are recognized as a family under various classification schemes ...

*:::: Family Brexiaceae *:::: Family Grossulariaceae *:::: Family Iteaceae *:::: Family Cephalotaceae *:::: Family Crassulaceae *::: Order Droserales *:::: Family Droseraceae *:::: Family Lepuropetalaceae *:::: Family Parnassiaceae *::: Order Rosales *:::: Family

Rosaceae Rosaceae (), the rose family, is a medium-sized family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. The name is derived from the type genus ''Rosa''. Among the most species-rich genera are ''Alchemilla'' (270), ''Sorbus ...

*:::: Family

Neuradaceae The Neuradaceae are a family of flowering plant, comprising three genera — ''Grielum'', '' Neurada'' and '' Neuradopsis'' — totalling ten known species. These genera were formerly placed in order Rosales, and in one case even in family Rosa ...

*:::: Family Malaceae *:::: Family Amygdalaceae *:::: Family Anisophylleaceae *:::: Family Crossosomataceae *:::: Family Surianaceae *:::: Family Rhabdodendraceae *::: Order Gunnerales *:::: Family Gunneraceae *:: Superorder Podostemiflorae *::: Order Podostemales *:::: Family Podostemaceae (including Tristichaceae) *:: Superorder Fabiflorae *::: Order Fabales *:::: Family Mimosaceae *:::: Family

Caesalpiniaceae Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name ''Caesalpinia''. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily. The Caesalpinioideae ar ...

*:::: Family

Fabaceae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenc ...

*:: Superorder Proteiflorae *::: Order

Proteales Proteales is an order of flowering plants consisting of three (or four) families. The Proteales have been recognized by almost all taxonomists. The representatives of the Proteales are very different from each other. The order contains plants ...

*:::: Family

Proteaceae The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae, they make up the order Pro ...

*::: Order Elaeagnales *:::: Family Elaeagnaceae *:: Superorder Myrtiflorae *::: Order

Myrtales The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a sister to the eurosids II clade as of the publishing of the ''Eucalyptus grandis'' genome in June 2014. The APG III system of classification for angiosperms still places it within the eur ...

*:::: Family Psiloxylaceae *:::: Family Heteropyxidaceae *:::: Family

Myrtaceae Myrtaceae, the myrtle family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, pōhutukawa, bay rum tree, clove, guava, acca (feijoa), allspice, and eucalyptus are some notable members of this group. All speci ...

*:::: Family Onagraceae *:::: Family Trapaceae *:::: Family

Lythraceae Lythraceae is a family of flowering plants, including 32 genera, with about 620 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. The larger genera include ''Cuphea'' (275 spp.), ''Lagerstroemia'' (56), ''Nesaea'' (50), ''Rotala'' (45), and ''Lythrum'' (35). ...

*:::: Family Combretaceae *:::: Family Melastomataceae *:::: Family Memecylaceae *:::: Family

Crypteroniaceae The Crypteroniaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plant, flowering trees and shrubs. The family includes 13 species in three genus, genera, native to Indomalaya. Genera There are three genera of Crypteroniaceae, all native to Asi ...

*:::: Family Oliniaceae *:::: Family Penaeaceae *:::: Family Rhynchocalycaceae *:::: Family

Alzateaceae ''Alzatea verticillata'' is a small flowering tree, native to the Neotropics. It inhabits moist submontane forests from Costa Rica and Panama in Central America south to Peru and Bolivia in tropical South America. It is the sole species of genus ...

*::: Order Haloragales *:::: Family Haloragaceae *:: Superorder Rutiflorae *::: Order Sapindales *:::: Family Coriariaceae *:::: Family Anacardiaceae *:::: Family Leitneriaceae *:::: Family Podoaceae *:::: Family

Sapindaceae The Sapindaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1858 accepted species. Examples include horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee. The Sapindaceae occur in tempera ...

*:::: Family Hippocastanaceae *:::: Family Aceraceae *:::: Family Akaniaceae *:::: Family

Bretschneideraceae ''Bretschneidera sinensis'', the sole species in genus ''Bretschneidera'', is a rare, tall a monotypic species of tree with large inflorescences. It is found in south and east of China, Taiwan, northern Thailand and northern Vietnam. It is thre ...

*:::: Family Emblingiaceae *:::: Family Staphyleaceae *:::: Family Melianthaceae *:::: Family Sabiaceae *:::: Family Meliosmaceae *:::: Family Connaraceae *::: Order

Rutales Sapindales is an order of flowering plants. Well-known members of Sapindales include citrus; maples, horse-chestnuts, lychees and rambutans; mangos and cashews; frankincense and myrrh; mahogany and neem. The APG III system of 2009 includes it i ...

*:::: Family Rutaceae *:::: Family

Ptaeroxylaceae Ptaeroxylaceae Juss. are a small family of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes, most of them from Madagascar, comprising only two genera. Such a family was not recognized by the APG II system of classification (2003), which noted th ...

*:::: Family Cneoraceae *:::: Family Simaroubaceae *:::: Family Tepuianthaceae *:::: Family Burseraceae *:::: Family Meliaceae *::: Order Polygalales *:::: Family

Malpighiaceae Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. It comprises about 73 genera and 1315 species, all of which are native to the tropics and subtropics. About 80% of the genera and 90% of the species occur in the New World ( ...

*:::: Family

Trigoniaceae Trigoniaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 28 species in five genera. It is a tropical family found in Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Central and South America.Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website The Angiosp ...

*:::: Family

Vochysiaceae Vochysiaceae is a plant family belonging to the order of Myrtales. Description Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves; flowers are zygomorph 1-(3)-5 merous; ovary inferior or superior; one fertile stamen; fruits samara or capsules. Biogeograp ...

*:::: Family Polygalaceae *:::: Family Krameriaceae *::: Order Geraniales *:::: Family Zygophyllaceae *:::: Family Nitrariaceae *:::: Family Peganaceae *:::: Family Balanitaceae *:::: Family Erythroxylaceae *:::: Family Humiriaceae *:::: Family Linaceae *:::: Family

Ctenolophonaceae ''Ctenolophon'' is the only genus in the flowering plant family Ctenolophonaceae. It has two recognized species: * '' Ctenolophon englerianus'' Mildbr. - central Africa (Nigeria, Gabon, Zaire, Angola) * '' Ctenolophon parvifolius'' Oliv. - New ...

*:::: Family

Ixonanthaceae Ixonanthaceae is a pantropical flowering plant family of trees or shrubs, consisting of about 30 species in 3 or 4 genera. It is a broadleaf evergreen. References Malpighiales families Pantropical flora {{Malpighiales-stub ...

*:::: Family

Lepidobotryaceae Lepidobotryaceae is a family of plants in the order Celastrales."Lepidobotryaceae" In: Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. In: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (see External links below). It contains only two specie ...

*:::: Family

Oxalidaceae The Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, are a small family of five genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 570 species in the genus ''Oxalis'' (wood sorrels). Members of this family typically have divid ...

(including Averrhoaceae) *:::: Family Geraniaceae *:::: Family Dirachmaceae *:::: Family Ledocarpaceae *:::: Family

Vivianiaceae Vivianiaceae was a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales. The family name is derived from the genus '' Viviania'' Cav. It includes both the genus ''Viviania'' and ''Balbisia''. The family is now wholly incorporated into the ...

*:::: Family Biebersteiniaceae *::: Order Linales (incorporated into Geraniales) *:::: Family Linaceae *:::: Family Humiriaceae *:::: Family

*:::: Family

*:::: Family Erythroxylaceae *:::: Family

*:::: Family

*::: Order Celastrales *:::: Family

Stackhousiaceae Stackhousiaceae R.Br. is an obsolete family of plants, now merged into the family Celastraceae. When accepted, it comprised the following genera: * '' Macgregoria'' * ''Stackhousia ''Stackhousia'' is a genus of annual and perennial plants in th ...

*:::: Family

Lophopyxidaceae ''Lophopyxis'' is a genus of flowering plants and the sole genus of the family Lophopyxidaceae. The group consists of 2 species of tendrillate lianas. They are found in the Sunda Islands The Sunda Islands ( id, Kepulauan Sunda) are a group ...

*:::: Family Cardiopteridaceae *:::: Family

Corynocarpaceae ''Corynocarpus'' is the only genus of plants in the family Corynocarpaceae and includes five species. It is native to New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. Species # '' Corynocarpus cribbianus'' (F. M. Bailey) L. S. S ...

*:::: Family Celastraceae *::: Order

Rhizophorales The Rhizophoraceae is a family of tropical or subtropical flowering plants. It includes around 147 species distributed in 15 genera.Setoguchi, H., Kosuge, K., & Tobe, H. (1999). Molecular Phylogeny of Rhizophoraceae Based on rbcL Gene Sequences. ...

*:::: Family Rhizophoraceae *:::: Family Elaeocarpaceae *::: Order Balsaminales *:::: Family Balsaminaceae *:: Superorder Santaliflorae *::: Order Santalales *:::: Family Olacaceae *:::: Family Opiliaceae *:::: Family Loranthaceae *:::: Family

Medusandraceae ''Medusandra'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Peridiscaceae."Peridiscaceae" At: Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. (see external links below) It has two species, ''M ...

*:::: Family Misodendraceae *:::: Family Eremolepidaceae *:::: Family Santalaceae *:::: Family Viscaceae *:: Superorder Balanophoriflorae *::: Order

Balanophorales The Santalales are an order of flowering plants with a cosmopolitan distribution, but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions. It derives its name from its type genus ''Santalum'' (sandalwood). Mistletoe is the common name for ...

*:::: Family Cynomoriaceae *:::: Family Balanophoraceae *:: Superorder

*::: Order Pittosporales *:::: Family Pittosporaceae *:::: Family Tremandraceae *:::: Family Byblidaceae *::: Order Araliales *:::: Family Araliaceae *:::: Family Apiaceae *:: Superorder Asteriflorae *::: Order Campanulales *:::: Family Pentaphragmataceae *:::: Family Campanulaceae *:::: Family Lobeliaceae *::: Order Asterales *:::: Family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae ...

*:: Superorder

*::: Order Solanales *:::: Family

Solanaceae The Solanaceae , or nightshades, are a family of flowering plants that ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and orn ...

*:::: Family Sclerophylacaceae *:::: Family Goetzeaceae *:::: Family Convolvulaceae *:::: Family Cuscutaceae *:::: Family Cobaeaceae *:::: Family Polemoniaceae *::: Order Boraginales *:::: Family Hydrophyllaceae *:::: Family Ehretiaceae *:::: Family Boraginaceae *:::: Family Lennoaceae *:::: Family Hoplestigmataceae *:: Superorder Corniflorae *::: Order Fouquieriales *:::: Family

Fouquieriaceae ''Fouquieria'' is a genus of 11 species of desert plants, the sole genus in the Family (biology), family Fouquieriaceae. The genus includes the ocotillo (''Fouquieria splendens, F. splendens'') and the Boojum tree or cirio (''Fouquieria columnar ...

*::: Order Ericales *:::: Family Actinidiaceae *:::: Family Clethraceae *:::: Family Cyrillaceae *:::: Family Ericaceae *:::: Family

Empetraceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

*:::: Family Monotropaceae *:::: Family Pyrolaceae *:::: Family

Epacridaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

*::: Order Eucommiales *:::: Family Eucommiaceae *::: Order

Sarraceniales Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher ...

*:::: Family Sarraceniaceae *::: Order Cornales *:::: Family Garryaceae *:::: Family Alangiaceae *:::: Family Nyssaceae *:::: Family Cornaceae *:::: Family

Roridulaceae ''Roridula'' (; from Latin ''roridus'' "dewy") is a genus of evergreen, insect-trapping shrubs, with two species, of about 1⅓–2 m (4–6⅔ ft). It is the only genus in the family Roridulaceae. It has thin, woody, shyly branching, upright, in ...

*:::: Family Davidiaceae *:::: Family Escalloniaceae *:::: Family Helwingiaceae *:::: Family Torricelliaceae *:::: Family Aucubaceae *:::: Family Aralidiaceae *:::: Family Diapensiaceae *:::: Family Phellinaceae *:::: Family Aquifoliaceae *:::: Family

Paracryphiaceae The Paracryphiaceae are a family of woody shrubs and trees native to Australia, southeast Asia, and New Caledonia. In the APG III system of 2009, the family is placed in its own order, Paracryphiales, in the campanulid clade of the asterids. In ...

*:::: Family

Sphenostemonaceae ''Sphenostemon'' is the genus of small evergreen trees or shrubs native to New Guinea, Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. They have opposite or spiral leaves, and at most small stipules. The small flowers, borne in terminal inflorescences ...

*:::: Family Symplocaceae *:::: Family Icacinaceae *:::: Family

Montiniaceae Montiniaceae is a family of flowering plants. It includes two or three genera of shrubs and small trees, native to southwest Africa and tropical East Africa as well as Madagascar. The genera ''Grevea'' and ''Montinia'' are included in most c ...

*:::: Family Columelliaceae *:::: Family Stylidiaceae (including Donatiaceae) *:::: Family Alseuosmiaceae *:::: Family Hydrangeaceae *:::: Family Sambucaceae *:::: Family Viburnaceae *:::: Family Menyanthaceae *:::: Family Adoxaceae *:::: Family Phyllonomaceae *:::: Family

Tribelaceae ''Tribeles australis'', the sole species in the genus ''Tribeles'', is a prostrate shrub native to Chile and Argentina. Taxonomy Historically it was placed alone in family Tribelaceae. This was placed in the Hydrangeales by Takhtajan, but the AP ...

*:::: Family Eremosynaceae *:::: Family Pterostemonaceae *:::: Family Tetracarpaeaceae *::: Order Dipsacales *:::: Family Caprifoliaceae *:::: Family Valerianaceae *:::: Family Dipsacaceae *:::: Family Morinaceae *:::: Family Calyceraceae *:: Superorder

*::: Order Loasales *:::: Family Loasaceae *:: Superorder

*::: Order Goodeniales *:::: Family Goodeniaceae *::: Order Oleales *:::: Family Oleaceae *::: Order Gentianales *:::: Family Desfontainiaceae *:::: Family Loganiaceae *:::: Family Dialypetalanthaceae *:::: Family Rubiaceae *:::: Family

Theligonaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules ...

*:::: Family Gentianaceae *:::: Family Saccifoliaceae *:::: Family Apocynaceae *:::: Family

Asclepiadaceae The Asclepiadoideae are a subfamily of plants in the family Apocynaceae. Formerly, they were treated as a separate family under the name Asclepiadaceae, e.g. by APG II, and known as the milkweed family. They form a group of perennial herbs, twin ...

*:: Superorder

*::: Order Lamiales *:::: Family Retziaceae *:::: Family Stilbaceae *:::: Family Buddlejaceae *:::: Family Scrophulariaceae *:::: Family

Myoporaceae Myoporaceae was a family of plants, found mostly in Australia, which included the following genera: * '' Diocirea'' * '' Eremophila'', also known as emu bush * ''Myoporum'', also known as Boobiala In the APG II system (continued in the APG III ...

*:::: Family

Globulariaceae ''Globularia'' is a genus of about 22 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, native to central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. They are dense low evergreen mat-forming perennials or subs ...

*:::: Family Plantaginaceae *:::: Family Lentibulariaceae *:::: Family Pedaliaceae *:::: Family Trapellaceae *:::: Family Martyniaceae *:::: Family Gesneriaceae *:::: Family Bignoniaceae *:::: Family Acanthaceae *:::: Family Verbenaceae *:::: Family

Lamiaceae The Lamiaceae ( ) or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mint, rosemary, sage, savory ...

*:::: Family Callitrichaceae *::: Order Hydrostachyales *:::: Family Hydrostachyaceae *::: Order Hippuridales *:::: Family Hippuridaceae

1982 system (monocotyledons)

Summary

Six superorders *Superorder Alismatiflorae *Superorder

*Superorder

Details

* Superorder Alismatiflorae 5 orders * Superorder Ariflorae 1 order ** Order Arales * Superorder Liliiflorae 11 orders ** Order Dioscoreales ** Order

Taccales The genus ''Tacca'', which includes the batflowers and arrowroot, consists of flowering plants in the order Dioscoreales, native to tropical regions of South America, Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and various oceanic islands. In older texts ...

** Order Asparagales *** Family Smilacaceae *** Family

Petermanniaceae ''Petermannia'' is the sole genus of plants in the family Petermanniaceae. ''Petermannia cirrosa'', the only species in the genus, is endemic to the states of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia Australia, officially the Commo ...

*** Family Philesiaceae *** Family Convallariaceae *** Family

Asparagaceae Asparagaceae, known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, ''Asparagus officinalis''. Those who live in the temperate c ...

*** Family

Herreriaceae Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales. It has previously been treated as a separate family, Agavaceae. The group includes many well-known desert and dry-zone types, such as the agaves ...

*** Family Dracaenaceae *** Family Doryanthaceae *** Family Dasypogonaceae *** Family Phormiaceae *** Family Xanthorrhoeaceae *** Family Agavaceae *** Family Hypoxidaceae *** Family Asphodelaceae *** Family Aphyllanthaceae *** Family Dianellaceae *** Family

Tecophilaeaceae Tecophilaeaceae is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. It consists of nine genera with a total of 27 species. The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG IV system of 2016 ...

*** Family Cyanastraceae *** Family

Eriospermaceae Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009. It used to be treated as a separate family, Ruscaceae s.l. The family name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Nolina''. The subfami ...

*** Family

Hemerocallidaceae Hemerocallidoideae is the a subfamily of flowering plants, part of the Family (biology), family Asphodelaceae ''sensu lato'' in the monocot Order (biology), order Asparagales according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG system of APG IV syst ...

*** Family Funkiaceae *** Family Hyacinthaceae *** Family Alliaceae *** Family

Amaryllidaceae The Amaryllidaceae are a family of herbaceous, mainly perennial and bulbous (rarely rhizomatous) flowering plants in the monocot order Asparagales. The family takes its name from the genus ''Amaryllis'' and is commonly known as the amaryllis fa ...

** Order

Liliales Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web system, within the lilioid monocots. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae. The APG III system (2009) place ...

*** Family Iridaceae *** Family Geosiridaceae *** Family Colchicaceae *** Family Alstroemeriaceae *** Family Tricyrtidaceae *** Family

Calochortaceae The Calochortoideae are a subfamily of monocotyledon perennial, herbaceous and mainly bulbous flowering plants in the lily family, Liliaceae. Approximately the same group of species has been recognized as a separate family, Calochortaceae, in a f ...

*** Family Liliaceae *** Family Melanthiaceae ** Order Burmanniales ** Order Orchidales ** Order Pontederiales ** Order Haemodorales ** Order Philydrales ** Order Velloziales ** Order Bromeliales * Superorder Zingiberiflorae 1 order ** Order Zingiberales * Superorder Commeliniflorae 8 orders * Superorder Areciflorae 3 orders

1985 system (monocotyledons)

Summary

Ten superorders *Superorder

*Superorder

*Superorder Alismatiflorae *Superorder

Bromeliiflorae Bromeliales is an Order (biology), order of flowering plants. Such an order has been recognized by a few list of systems of plant taxonomy, systems of plant taxonomy, with a various placement. It appears that it always has had the same circumsc ...

*Superorder

*Superorder Cyclanthiflorae *Superorder

*Superorder

Pandaniflorae Pandanales, the pandans or screw-pines, is an order of flowering plants placed in the monocot clade in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web systems. Within the monocots Pandanales are grouped in the lilioid monocots where ...

Details

Liliiflorae

*:: Superorder

6 orders p. 107 *::: Order Dioscoreales *:::: Family

Trichopodaceae Dioscoreaceae () is a family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 715 known species in nine genus, genera. The best-known member of the family is the yam (vegetable), yam (some species of ''Dioscorea''). The APG sys ...

*:::: Family Dioscoreaceae *:::: Family Taccaceae *:::: Family

Stemonaceae The Stemonaceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Pandanales. The family consists of four genera with ca 37 known species distributed in areas with seasonal climate across Southeast Asia and tropical Australia. ...

*:::: Family Trilliaceae *:::: Family Smilacaceae *:::: Family

*::: Order Asparagales *:::: Family Philesiaceae *:::: Family

Luzuriagaceae Luzuriagaceae is a family of flowering plants that was recognized in the 1998 APG system and the 2003 APG II system. The 2009 APG III system merged this small family into the Alstroemeriaceae in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots Monoco ...

*:::: Family Convallariaceae *:::: Family

*:::: Family

Ruscaceae Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009. It used to be treated as a separate family, Ruscaceae s.l. The family name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Nolina''. The subfa ...

*:::: Family

*:::: Family Dracaenaceae *:::: Family

Nolinaceae Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family (biology), family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009. It used to be treated as a separate family, Ruscaceae sensu lato, s.l. The family name is derived from the Binomial nomenclature, gener ...

*:::: Family Asteliaceae *:::: Family Hanguanaceae *:::: Family Dasypogonaceae *:::: Family Calectasiaceae *:::: Family

Blandfordiaceae ''Blandfordia'', commonly known as Christmas bells, is a genus of four species of flowering plants native to eastern Australia. Christmas bells are tufted, perennial herbs with narrow, linear leaves and up to twenty large, drooping, cylindrical ...

*:::: Family Xanthorrhoeaceae *:::: Family Agavaceae *:::: Family Hypoxidaceae *:::: Family

*:::: Family Cyanastraceae *:::: Family

*:::: Family Ixioliriaceae *:::: Family Phormiaceae *:::: Family Doryanthaceae *:::: Family

*:::: Family Asphodelaceae *:::: Family

Anthericaceae Agavoideae is a subfamily of Monocotyledon, monocot flowering plants in the Family (biology), family Asparagaceae, Order (biology), order Asparagales. It has previously been treated as a separate family, Agavaceae. The group includes many well-kn ...

*:::: Family Aphyllanthaceae *:::: Family Funkiaceae *:::: Family Hyacinthaceae *:::: Family Alliaceae *:::: Family

*::::: Tribe Amaryllideae *::::: Tribe Hippeastrae *::::: Tribe Lycoridae *::::: Tribe Stenomesseae *::::: Tribe Eucharideae *::::: Tribe Pancratieae *::::: Tribe Narcisseae *::::: Tribe Galantheae *::: Order Melanthiales *:::: Family Melanthiaceae *:::: Family Campynemaceae *::: Order Burmanniales *:::: Family Burmanniaceae *:::: Family

Thismiaceae Thismiaceae is a family of flowering plants whose status is currently uncertain. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classifications (APG II, APG III , and APG IV) merge Thismiaceae into Burmanniaceae, noting that some studies have suggested that Thism ...

*:::: Family Corsiaceae *::: Order

*:::: Family Alstroemeriaceae *:::: Family Colchicaceae *:::: Family

Uvulariaceae Uvulariaceae is a family of flowering plants. While seldom recognised, the family is accepted by the Dahlgren system, which places it in order Liliales, superorder Lilianae, and the subclass Liliidae monocotyledonsof class Magnoliopsida angiosper ...

*:::: Family

*:::: Family Liliaceae *:::: Family Geosiridaceae *:::: Family Iridaceae *::: Order Orchids *:::: Family Apostasiaceae *:::: Family Cypripediaceae *:::: Family Orchidaceae

Ariflorae

*:: Superorder

1 order p. 275 *::: Order Arales *:::: Family Araceae *:::: Family

Lemnaceae Lemnoideae is a subfamily of flowering aquatic plants, known as duckweeds, water lentils, or water lenses. They float on or just beneath the surface of still or slow-moving bodies of fresh water and wetlands. Also known as bayroot, they arose fr ...

Triuridiflorae

*:: Superorder

1 order p. 287 *::: Order Triuridales *:::: Family Triuridaceae

Alismatiflorae

*:: Superorder Alismatiflorae 2 orders p. 292 *::: Order Alismatales *:::: Family Aponogetonaceae *:::: Family Butomaceae *:::: Family Limnocharitaceae *:::: Family Alismataceae *:::: Family Hydrocharitaceae *::: Order Najadales *:::: Family Scheuchzeriaceae *:::: Family Juncaginaceae *:::: Family

Potamogetonaceae The Potamogetonaceae, commonly referred to as the pondweed family, is an aquatic family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The roughly 110 known species are divided over six genera. The largest genus in the family by far is ''Potamogeton'', w ...

*:::: Family Posidoniaceae *:::: Family Zosteraceae *:::: Family Zannichelliaceae *:::: Family Cymodoceaceae *:::: Family Najadaceae

Bromeliiflorae

*:: Superorder Bromeliflorae 6 orders p. 323 *::: Order Velloziales *:::: Family

Velloziaceae Velloziaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Pandanales. Relationships and evolution By contrast to o ...

*::: Order Bromeliales *:::: Family

Bromeliaceae The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot Monocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae ''sensu'' Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain o ...

*::: Order Philydrales *:::: Family

Philydraceae Philydraceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera and a total of six known species. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recogni ...

*::: Order Haemodorales *:::: Family Haemodoraceae *::: Order Pontederiales *:::: Family Pontederiaceae *::: Order Typhales *:::: Family

Sparganiaceae Sparganiaceae is a family of flowering plants. Such a family was previously recognized by most taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in ...

*:::: Family Typhaceae

Zingiberiflorae

*:: Superorder

1 order p. 350 *::: Order Zingiberales *:::: Family Lowiaceae *:::: Family

Musaceae Musaceae is a family of flowering plants composed of three genera with about 91 known species, placed in the order Zingiberales. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves ...

*:::: Family Heliconiaceae *:::: Family

Strelitziaceae The Strelitziaceae comprise a family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, very similar in appearance and growth habit to members of the related families Heliconiaceae and Musaceae (banana family). The three genera with seven sp ...

*:::: Family Zingiberaceae *:::: Family Costaceae *:::: Family Cannaceae *:::: Family Marantaceae

Commeliniflorae

*:: Superorder

4 orders p. 374 *::: Order Commelinales *:::: Family Commelinaceae *:::: Family Mayacaceae *:::: Family Xyridaceae *:::: Family Rapateaceae *:::: Family Eriocaulaceae *::: Order Hydatellales *:::: Family Hydatellaceae *::: Order Cyperales *:::: Family Juncaceae *:::: Family Thurniaceae *:::: Family

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...

*::: Order Poales *:::: Family Flagellariaceae *:::: Family Joinvilleaceae *:::: Family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

*:::: Family Ecdeiocolaceae *:::: Family Anarthriaceae *:::: Family Restionaceae *:::: Family Centrolepidaceae

Cyclanthiflorae

*:: Superorder Cyclanthiflorae 1 order p. 461 *::: Order

Cyclanthales Cyclanthaceae is a family of flowering plants. Taxonomy Earlier systems, such as the Cronquist system and the Takhtajan system, placed it as the sole family in the order Cyclanthales. In the classification system of Dahlgren the Cyclanthaceae w ...

*:::: Family Cyclanthaceae

Areciflorae

*:: Superorder

1 order p. 467 *::: Order Arecales *:::: Family

Arecaceae The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm ...

Pandaniflorae

*:: Superorder

1 order p. 480 *::: Order

Pandanales Pandanales, the pandans or screw-pines, is an order of flowering plants placed in the monocot clade in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web systems. Within the monocots Pandanales are grouped in the lilioid monocots wh ...

*:::: Family

Pandanaceae Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World, from West Africa through the Pacific. It contains 982 known species in five genera, of which the type genus, ''Pandanus'', is the most important, wi ...

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