APG III system
Encyclopedia
The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy. The system was published in 2009 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to an informal international group of systematic botanists who came together to try to establish a consensus on the taxonomy of flowering plants that would reflect new knowledge about plant relationships discovered through phylogenetic studies., three...

, 6½ years after its predecessor the APG II system
APG II system
The APG II system of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was superseded in 2009...

 was published, and 11 years after the intital APG system
APG system
The APG system of plant classification is the first, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was superseded in 2003 by a revision, the APG II system, and then in 2009 by a further...

 was published in 1998.

Along with the publication outlining the new system, there were two accompanying publications in the same issue of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society is a scientific journal publishing original papers relating to the taxonomy of all plant groups and fungi, including anatomy, biosystematics, cytology, ecology, ethnobotany, electron microscopy, morphogenesis, palaeobotany, palynology and...

. The first, by Chase & Reveal, was a formal phylogenetic classification of all land plants
Embryophyte
The land plants or embryophytes, more formally Embryophyta or Metaphyta, are the most familiar group of plants. They are called 'land plants' because they live primarily in terrestrial habitats, in contrast with the related green algae that are primarily aquatic. The embryophytes include trees,...

 (embryophytes), compatible with the APG III classification. As the APG have chosen to eschew ranks above order, this paper was meant to fit the system into the existing Linnaean hierarchy
Linnaean taxonomy
Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts:# the particular form of biological classification set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema Naturæ and subsequent works...

 for those that prefer such a classification. The result was that all land plants were placed in the class Equisitopsida, which was then divided into 16 subclasses (including the Magnoliidae
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

, containing all flowering plants) and a multitude of superorders. The second, by Haston et al., was a linear sequence of families following the APG III system (LAPG III). This provided a numbered list to all of the 413 currently accepted families, of particular use to herbarium
Herbarium
In botany, a herbarium – sometimes known by the Anglicized term herbar – is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in...

 curators and those working on floristic
Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...

 works wishing to arrange their taxa according to APG III.

Short version

  • clade angiosperms
    order Amborellales
    order Nymphaeales
    Nymphaeales
    Nymphaeales is an order of plants, which consists of water lilies and other aquatic plants.This order is considered to be a basal, or early diverging, group of angiosperms...

    order Austrobaileyales
    Austrobaileyales
    Austrobaileyales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants, consisting of about 100 species of woody plants, perhaps the most famous of which is the spice star anise.- In different classifications :...

    order Chloranthales
    clade magnoliids
    order Canellales
    Canellales
    Canellales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants, one of the four orders of the magnoliids. It is defined to contain two families: Canellaceae and Winteraceae, which comprise 136 species of fragrant trees and shrubs...

    order Laurales
    Laurales
    The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. They are magnoliids, related to the Magnoliales.The order includes about 2500-2800 species from 85-90 genera, which comprise seven families of trees and shrubs. Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate...

    order Magnoliales
    Magnoliales
    Magnoliales is an order of flowering plants.-Classification:The Magnoliales includes six families:* Annonaceae...

    order Piperales
    Piperales
    Piperales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It necessarily includes the family Piperaceae but otherwise has been treated variously over time...

    clade monocots
    order Acorales
    order Alismatales
    Alismatales
    Alismatales is an order of flowering plants including about 2500 species. Pleants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic.-Description:...

    order Asparagales
    Asparagales
    Asparagales is the name of an order of plants, used in modern classification systems such as the APG III system . The order takes its name from the family Asparagaceae and is placed in the monocots. The order has only recently been recognized in classification systems...

    order Dioscoreales
    Dioscoreales
    Dioscoreales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Dioscoreaceae.In the APG II system, of 2003, this order was placed in the clade monocots and comprised the families Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae and Nartheciaceae.Under the APG system of 1998,...

    order Liliales
    Liliales
    Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae, but both the family and the order have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another...

    order Pandanales
    Pandanales
    Pandanales is an order of flowering plants, with a pantropical distribution.The APG III system places the Pandanales in the monocots. Both the APG III and APG II systems include five families in this order:* Cyclanthaceae* Pandanaceae* Stemonaceae...

    order Petrosaviales
    clade commelinids
    Commelinids
    In plant taxonomy, commelinids is a name used by the APG III system for a clade within the monocots, which in its turn is a clade within the angiosperms. The commelinids are the only clade that the APG has informally named within the monocots...

    family Dasypogonaceae
    Dasypogonaceae
    Dasypogonaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been commonly recognized by taxonomists: the plants involved were usually included in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae....

     -- unplaced in an order
    order Arecales
    order Commelinales
    Commelinales
    Commelinales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae. All the families combined contain over 800 species in about 70 genera; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae...

    order Poales
    Poales
    Poales is a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges. Sixteen plant families are currently recognized by botanists to be part of Poales....

    order Zingiberales
    Zingiberales
    Zingiberales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades. This order includes many familiar plants like ginger, cardamom, turmeric, galangal and myoga of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family, and bananas and plantains...

    probable sister of eudicots
    order Ceratophyllales
    clade eudicots
    Eudicots
    Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are botanical terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton to refer to a monophyletic group of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-Magnoliid dicots by previous authors...

    family Sabiaceae
    Sabiaceae
    Sabiaceae is a family of flowering plants, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern Asia and the Americas.In the Cronquist system the family was placed in the order Ranunculales, but more recent classifications place it as the sole family in the order Sabiales, or , as unplaced to...

     -- unplaced in an order
    order Buxales
    Buxales
    Buxales is a botanical name at the rank of order.Under the APG II system, Buxaceae is a family unplaced as to order in the eudicots. This family may optionally include the genus Didymeles, which in Cronquist system was given its own family and order, placed in subclass Hamamelidae...

    order Proteales
    Proteales
    Proteales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. Such an order has been recognized by almost all taxonomists.-Families:The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this order, and places it in the clade eudicots with this circumscription:...

    order Ranunculales
    Ranunculales
    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 known as the basal eudicots...

    order Trochodendrales
    clade core eudicots
    family Dilleniaceae
    Dilleniaceae
    Dilleniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It is known to gardeners for the genus Hibbertia, which contains many commercially valuable garden species....

     -- unplaced in an order
    order Gunnerales
    Gunnerales
    Gunnerales is an order of flowering plants. In the APG III system it contains two genera: Gunnera and Myrothamnus. These are assigned to two separate families . In the Cronquist system Gunneraceae was placed in the Haloragales and Myrothamnaceae in the Hamamelidales.-External links:* in Stevens,...

    order Saxifragales
    Saxifragales
    Saxifragales is an order of flowering plants. Their closest relatives are a large eudicot group known as the rosids by the definition of rosids given in the APG II classification system. Some authors define the rosids more widely, including Saxifragales as their most basal group. Saxifragales is...

    clade rosids
    Rosids
    The rosids are members of a large clade of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms. The clade is divided into 16 to 20 orders, depending upon circumscription and classification. These orders, in turn, together comprise about 140 families...

    order Vitales
    clade fabids (eurosids I)
    order Celastrales
    Celastrales
    Celastrales is an order of flowering plants. They are found throughout the tropics and subtropics, with only a few species extending far into the temperate regions. There are about 1200 to 1350 species in about 100 genera. All but 7 of these genera are in the large family Celastraceae...

    order Cucurbitales
    Cucurbitales
    The Cucurbitales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. This order mostly belongs to tropical areas, with limited presence in subtropic and temperate regions. The order includes shrubs and trees, together with many herbs and climbers...

    order Fabales
    Fabales
    Fabales is an order of flowering plants. It is included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system...

    order Fagales
    Fagales
    The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees. The order name is derived from genus Fagus, Beeches. They belong among the rosid group of dicotyledons...

    order Malpighiales
    Malpighiales
    Malpighiales is one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 16000 species, approximately 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse and hard to recognize except with molecular phylogenetic evidence. It is not part of any of the classification systems that are based only on...

    order Oxalidales
    Oxalidales
    The Oxalidales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of eudicots. The following families are typically placed here:* Family Brunelliaceae* Family Cephalotaceae * Family Connaraceae...

    order Rosales
    Rosales
    Rosales is an order of flowering plants. It is one of the four orders in the nitrogen fixing clade of the fabids and is sister to a clade consisting of Fagales and Cucurbitales. It contains about 7700 species, distributed into about 260 genera. Rosales comprises nine families, the type family...

    order Zygophyllales
    Zygophyllales
    The Zygophyllales are an order of dicotyledon plants, comprising the following two families:* Family Zygophyllaceae* Family KrameriaceaeAccording to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group both families are unplaced to order, but nevertheless included in the Eurosids I. The APG III system of 2009, however,...

    clade malvids (eurosids II)
    order Brassicales
    Brassicales
    The Brassicales are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system. One character common to many members of the order is the production of glucosinolate compounds...

    order Crossosomatales
    Crossosomatales
    The Crossosomatales are an order, newly recognized by the AGP II, of flowering plants, included within the Rosids, which are part of the eudicots...

    order Geraniales
    Geraniales
    Geraniales are a small order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. The largest family in the order is Geraniaceae with over 800 species. In addition, the order includes some small families, contributing together another less than 40 species...

    order Huerteales
    Huerteales
    Huerteales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It is one of the 17 orders that make up the large eudicot group known as the rosids in the APG III system of plant classification. Within the rosids, it is one of the orders in Malvidae, a group formerly known as eurosids II and...

    order Malvales
    Malvales
    Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, it includes about 6000 species within nine families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots....

    order Myrtales
    Myrtales
    The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a basal group within the rosid group of dicotyledons...

    order Picramniales
    order Sapindales
    Sapindales
    Sapindales is a botanical name for 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....

    (back to core eudicots)
    order Berberidopsidales
    Berberidopsidales
    Berberidopsidales Doweld is a botanical name at the rank of order. This name is only newly published: such an order has been recognized by very few taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003, merely mentions the possibility of recognizing the order, as...

    order Caryophyllales
    Caryophyllales
    Caryophyllales is an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, and many carnivorous plants. Many members are succulent, having fleshy stems or leaves.-Description:...

    order Santalales
    Santalales
    Santalales is an order of flowering plants with a cosmopolitan distribution, but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.Most have seeds without a testa, which is unusual for flowering plants...

    clade asterids
    Asterids
    In the APG II system for the classification of flowering plants, the name asterids refers to a clade .Most of the taxa belonging to this clade had been referred to the Asteridae in the Cronquist system and to the Sympetalae in earlier systems...

    order Cornales
    Cornales
    Cornales is an order of flowering plants, basal among the asterids, containing about 600 species. Plants within Cornales usually have four-parted flowers, drupaceous fruits, and inferior gynoecia topped with disc-shaped nectaries...

    order Ericales
    Ericales
    The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons, including for example tea, persimmon, blueberry, Brazil nut, and azalea. The order includes trees and bushes, lianas and herbaceous plants. Together with ordinary autophytic plants, the Ericales include chlorophyll-deficient...

    clade lamiids (euasterids I)
    family Boraginaceae
    Boraginaceae
    Boraginaceae, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, include a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.A number of familiar plants belong to this family....

     -- unplaced in an order
    family Vahliaceae -- unplaced in an order
    family Icacinaceae
    Icacinaceae
    Icacinaceae is a family of flowering plants.It consists of trees, shrubs, and lianas, primarily of the tropics.The family was traditionally circumscribed quite broadly, with around 55 genera totalling over 400 species...

     -- unplaced in an order
    family Metteniusaceae -- unplaced in an order
    family Oncothecaceae -- unplaced in an order
    order Garryales
    Garryales
    The Garryales are a small order of dicotyledons, including only two families and three genera:* Family Garryaceae**Garrya**Aucuba* Family Eucommiaceae**Eucommia...

    order Gentianales
    Gentianales
    Gentianales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.The circumscription of Gentiales in the Cronquist system included a broadly defined Loganiaceae , Retziaceae, Gentianaceae, Saccifoliaceae, Apocynaceae, and Asclepiadaceae...

    order Lamiales
    Lamiales
    Lamiales is an order in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes approximately 11,000 species divided into about 20 families...

    order Solanales
    Solanales
    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....

    clade campanulids (euasterids II)
    order Apiales
    Apiales
    The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families given at right 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 be divided...

    order Aquifoliales
    Aquifoliales
    The Aquifoliales are an order of flowering plants, including most notably the Aquifoliaceae, or holly family, and also the Helwingiaceae and the Phyllonomaceae . In 2001, the families Stemonuraceae and Cardiopteridaceae were added to this order...

    order Asterales
    Asterales
    Asterales is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the composite family and its related families.The order is a cosmopolite, and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees and shrubs are also present.The Asterales can be characterized on the...

    order Bruniales
    Bruniales
    Bruniales is a valid botanic name at the rank of order. Until recently it was not in use, but a 2008 study suggested that Bruniaceae and Columelliaceae are sister clades...

    order Dipsacales
    Dipsacales
    The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.Under the Cronquist system, the order included Adoxaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacaceae, and Valerianaceae. Under the more recent Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, the circumscription of the order is...

    order Escalloniales
    order Paracryphiales

Detailed version (with all families)

Legend:

* = new family placement;

= newly recognized order for the APG system;

§ = new family circumscription described in the text;

$ = families that represent the broader circumscription of options available in APG II and favoured here;

$$ = families that were in square brackets in APG II, the narrower circumscriptions favoured here.

Angiosperms 

  • †Amborellales Melikyan, A.V.Bobrov & Zaytzeva
    • Amborellaceae
      Amborellaceae
      Amborella is a genus of rare understory shrubs or small trees endemic to the island of New Caledonia. The genus consists of only a single species, Amborella trichopoda, and is the only member of the family Amborellaceae. Wood of Amborella lacks the vessels characteristic of most flowering plants...

       Pichon
  • Nymphaeales
    Nymphaeales
    Nymphaeales is an order of plants, which consists of water lilies and other aquatic plants.This order is considered to be a basal, or early diverging, group of angiosperms...

     Salisb. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • $$Cabombaceae
      Cabombaceae
      Cabombaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised as distinct by at least some taxonomists and by APG III...

       Rich. ex A.Rich.
    • *Hydatellaceae
      Hydatellaceae
      Hydatellaceae are small, aquatic flowering plants. The family includes the genus Trithuria, which has been recently re-defined to include the genus Hydatella. The family consists of about a dozen species. These tiny , relatively simple, aquatic plants occur in Australasia and India. The simple...

       U.Hamann
    • $$Nymphaeaceae
      Nymphaeaceae
      Nymphaeaceae is a family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called water lilies and live in freshwater areas in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains eight genera. There are about 70 species of water lilies around the world. The genus...

       Salisb.
  • Austrobaileyales
    Austrobaileyales
    Austrobaileyales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants, consisting of about 100 species of woody plants, perhaps the most famous of which is the spice star anise.- In different classifications :...

     Takht. ex Reveal
    • Austrobaileyaceae
      Austrobaileyaceae
      Austrobaileyaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. This family is recognised by most plant taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognise such a family and places it in order Austrobaileyales. This order is accepted as being among the most basic lineages in the clade...

       Croizat
    • $Schisandraceae
      Schisandraceae
      Schisandraceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades. Before that, the plants concerned were assigned to family Magnoliaceae....

       Blume (including Illiciaceae
      Illiciaceae
      Illiciaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades....

       A.C.Sm.)
    • Trimeniaceae
      Trimeniaceae
      Trimeniaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades....

       L.S.Gibbs
  • †Chloranthales R.Br.
    • Chloranthaceae
      Chloranthaceae
      Chloranthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family consists of four genera, totalling several dozen species, of herbaceous or woody plants occurring in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Madagascar, Central & South America, and the West Indies...

       R.Br. ex Sims

Magnoliids 

  • Canellales
    Canellales
    Canellales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants, one of the four orders of the magnoliids. It is defined to contain two families: Canellaceae and Winteraceae, which comprise 136 species of fragrant trees and shrubs...

     Cronquist
    • Canellaceae
      Canellaceae
      The Canellaceae are a family of flowering plants. The family has sixteen species in six genera. The species are highly aromatic evergreen plants, mostly trees and rarely shrubs, which produce essential oils...

       Mart.
    • Winteraceae
      Winteraceae
      The Winteraceae are a family of flowering plants. The family includes 120 species of trees and shrubs in 9 genera.The Winteraceae are a mostly southern-hemisphere family associated with the Antarctic flora, found in tropical to temperate climate regions of Malesia, Oceania, eastern Australia, New...

       R.Br. ex Lindl.
  • Piperales
    Piperales
    Piperales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It necessarily includes the family Piperaceae but otherwise has been treated variously over time...

     Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Aristolochiaceae
      Aristolochiaceae
      The Aristolochiaceae, or the Birthwort family, are a family of flowering plants with 7 genera and about 400 species belonging to the order Piperales...

       Juss.
    • Hydnoraceae
      Hydnoraceae
      Hydnoraceae is a family of parasitic flowering plants in the order Piperales. It contains two genera, Hydnora and Prosopanche and some seven species...

       C.Agardh
    • Lactoridaceae Engl.
    • Piperaceae
      Piperaceae
      The Piperaceae, also known as the pepper family, is a large family of flowering plants. The group contains roughly 3,610 currently accepted species in five genera. The vast majority of peppers can be found within the two main genera: Piper and Peperomia .Members of the Piperaceae may be small...

       Giseke
    • Saururaceae
      Saururaceae
      Saururaceae is a plant family comprising four genera and seven species of herbaceous flowering plants native to eastern and southern Asia and North America. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is sometimes known as the "lizard's-tail family"...

       F.Voigt
  • Laurales
    Laurales
    The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. They are magnoliids, related to the Magnoliales.The order includes about 2500-2800 species from 85-90 genera, which comprise seven families of trees and shrubs. Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Atherospermataceae
      Atherospermataceae
      The Atherospermataceae, commonly known as the southern sassafrases, are a family of broadleaf evergreen trees and shrubs. The family includes 14 species in seven genera. The atherosperms are native to the southern hemisphere, with two species native to southern Chile and 12 species native to...

       R.Br.
    • Calycanthaceae
      Calycanthaceae
      The Calycanthaceae is a small family of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains four genera and only 6-11 species, restricted to warm temperate and tropical regions:...

       Lindl.
    • Gomortegaceae Reiche
    • Hernandiaceae
      Hernandiaceae
      Hernandiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Laurales in the clade magnoliids...

       Blume
    • Lauraceae
      Lauraceae
      The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...

       Juss.
    • Monimiaceae
      Monimiaceae
      Monimiaceae is a family of flowering plants, which includes 150-220 species of shrubs and small trees in 18-25 genera. They are native to the southern hemisphere tropics and subtropics. The largest genus is Tambourissa, with 50 species in Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, and the Comoros...

       Juss.
    • Siparunaceae
      Siparunaceae
      Siparunaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by few taxonomists: the plants concerned have usually been included in family Monimiaceae....

       Schodde
  • Magnoliales
    Magnoliales
    Magnoliales is an order of flowering plants.-Classification:The Magnoliales includes six families:* Annonaceae...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Annonaceae
      Annonaceae
      Annonaceae, also called the custard apple familyis a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs or rarely lianas.With about 2300 to 2500 species and more than 130 genera,...

       Juss.
    • Degeneriaceae
      Degeneriaceae
      Degeneriaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by more than a few taxonomists, at least over the past few decades....

       I.W.Bailey & A.C.Sm.
    • Eupomatiaceae
      Eupomatiaceae
      Eupomatiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Magnoliales in the clade magnoliids...

       Orb.
    • Himantandraceae
      Himantandraceae
      Himantandraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Magnoliales in the clade magnoliids...

       Diels
    • Magnoliaceae
      Magnoliaceae
      The Magnoliaceae, or Magnolia Family, is a flowering plant family in the order Magnoliales. It consists of two subfamilies:*Magnolioideae, of which Magnolia is the most well-known genus....

       Juss.
    • Myristicaceae
      Myristicaceae
      Myristicaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists; it is sometimes called the "nutmeg family", after its most famous member, Nutmeg ....

       R.Br.

Monocots 

  • Acorales Link
    • Acoraceae Martinov
  • Alismatales
    Alismatales
    Alismatales is an order of flowering plants including about 2500 species. Pleants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic.-Description:...

     R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • §Alismataceae
      Alismataceae
      The water-plantains are a family of flowering plants, comprising 11 genera and between 85-95 species. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the greatest number of species in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere...

       Vent. (including Limnocharitaceae
      Limnocharitaceae
      Limnocharitaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants in the monocot order Alismatales. It is commonly known as the water poppy family. They are small, perennial, aquatic herbs, native to the tropics, but adventive or naturalized in the subtropics as a result of...

       Takht. ex Cronquist)
    • Aponogetonaceae
      Aponogetonaceae
      The Aponogetonaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Alismatales.In recent decades the family has had universal recognition by taxonomists. The APG system and APG II system treat it in the order Alismatales in the clade monocots...

       Planch.
    • Araceae
      Araceae
      Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like bract. Also known as the Arum family, members are often colloquially...

       Juss.
    • Butomaceae Mirb.
    • Cymodoceaceae Vines
    • Hydrocharitaceae
      Hydrocharitaceae
      Hydrocharitaceae is a flowering plant family that includes a number of species of aquatic plant, broadly called the Tape-grasses, and includes the well known Canadian Waterweed and Frog's Bit.The family includes both fresh and marine aquatics...

       Juss.
    • Juncaginaceae
      Juncaginaceae
      Juncaginaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, recognized by most taxonomists for the past few decades. It is also known as the Arrowgrass family....

       Rich.
    • Posidoniaceae Vines
    • Potamogetonaceae
      Potamogetonaceae
      The Potamogetonaceae, commonly referred to as the pondweed family, is an aquatic family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. There are roughly 120 species spread across six genera in the Potamagetonaceae...

       Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Ruppiaceae
      Ruppiaceae
      Ruppia, also known as the ditch grasses, is the only genus in the family Ruppiaceae. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists...

       Horan.
    • Scheuchzeriaceae
      Scheuchzeriaceae
      Scheuchzeria palustris , is a flowering plant, the only species in the genus Scheuchzeria, itself the only genus in the family Scheuchzeriaceae...

       F.Rudolphi
    • Tofieldiaceae
      Tofieldiaceae
      Tofieldiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants in the monocot order Alismatales. The family is divided into five genera, which together comprise 20 or 21 species. They are small, herbaceous plants, mostly of arctic and subarctic regions, but a few extend further south, and...

       Takht.
    • Zosteraceae
      Zosteraceae
      Zosteraceae is a family of marine perennial flowering plants found in temperate and subtropical coastal waters, with the highest diversity located around Korea and Japan. Most seagrasses complete their entire life cycle under water, having filamentous pollen especially adapted to dispersion in an...

       Dumort.
  • †Petrosaviales Takht.
    • Petrosaviaceae
      Petrosaviaceae
      Petrosaviaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only few taxonomists: the plants involved were usually treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae....

       Hutch.
  • Dioscoreales
    Dioscoreales
    Dioscoreales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Dioscoreaceae.In the APG II system, of 2003, this order was placed in the clade monocots and comprised the families Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae and Nartheciaceae.Under the APG system of 1998,...

     R.Br.
    • Burmanniaceae
      Burmanniaceae
      Burmanniaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants, consisting of about a hundred species of herbaceous plants in roughly a dozen genera. Often they are quite remarkable plants, more often red than green, without much leaf area and not growing very big in any way.The APG II system,...

       Blume
    • Dioscoreaceae
      Dioscoreaceae
      Dioscoreaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants, with about 750 species in eight or nine genera. The best-known member of the family is the Yam ....

       R.Br.
    • Nartheciaceae
      Nartheciaceae
      Nartheciaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has only rarely been recognized by systems of plant taxonomy.The APG III system does recognize such a family and places it in the order Dioscoreales, in the clade monocots...

       Fr. ex Bjurzon
  • Pandanales
    Pandanales
    Pandanales is an order of flowering plants, with a pantropical distribution.The APG III system places the Pandanales in the monocots. Both the APG III and APG II systems include five families in this order:* Cyclanthaceae* Pandanaceae* Stemonaceae...

     R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Cyclanthaceae
      Cyclanthaceae
      Cyclanthaceae is a family of flowering plants.-Classification:The APG system and the APG II system assign it to the order Pandanales in the clade monocots...

       Poit. ex A.Rich.
    • Pandanaceae
      Pandanaceae
      Pandanaceae is a family of flowering plants native to the tropics of the Old World. Such a family has been widely recognized by taxonomists.Pandanaceae are trees or climbing or scrambling shrubs distributed in the Old World tropics and are adapted from sea level in salted beaches to mountain cloud...

       R.Br.
    • Stemonaceae
      Stemonaceae
      Stemonaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of three or four genera with between 25-35 species. The APG II system places it in the order Pandanales, in the monocots...

       Caruel
    • Triuridaceae
      Triuridaceae
      Triuridaceae is a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003, does recognize such a family and places it in the order Pandanales, in the clade monocots...

       Gardner
    • Velloziaceae
      Velloziaceae
      Velloziaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Pandanales in the clade monocots...

       J.Agardh
  • Liliales
    Liliales
    Liliales is an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants. This order of necessity includes the family Liliaceae, but both the family and the order have had a widely disputed history, with the circumscription varying greatly from one taxonomist to another...

     Perleb
    • §Alstroemeriaceae
      Alstroemeriaceae
      The Alstroemeriaceae is a family of flowering plants, with 200 species in three or four genera, native to the Americas, from Central America to southern South America....

       Dumort. (including Luzuriagaceae
      Luzuriagaceae
      Luzuriagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , did recognize such a family and placed it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. The APG III system merged this small family...

       Lotsy)
    • Campynemataceae
      Campynemataceae
      Campynemataceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots...

       Dumort.
    • Colchicaceae
      Colchicaceae
      Colchicaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants.The APG III system, of 2009 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots, and regards the family as including some two hundred species of herbaceous perennials with rhizomes or corms.The...

       DC.
    • Corsiaceae
      Corsiaceae
      Corsiaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system treats the family in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots...

       Becc.
    • Liliaceae
      Liliaceae
      The Liliaceae, or the lily family, is a family of monocotyledons in the order Liliales. Plants in this family have linear leaves, mostly with parallel veins but with several having net venation , and flower arranged in threes. Several have bulbs, while others have rhizomes...

       Juss.
    • Melanthiaceae
      Melanthiaceae
      Melanthiaceae is a family of flowering perennial herbs in the Northern Hemisphere. The family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists, and the circumscription has varied...

       Batsch ex Borkh.
    • *Petermanniaceae Hutch.
    • Philesiaceae
      Philesiaceae
      Philesiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots...

       Dumort.
    • Ripogonaceae Conran & Clifford
    • Smilacaceae
      Smilacaceae
      Smilacaceae, the greenbrier family, is a family of flowering plants. Up to some decades ago the genera now included in family Smilacaceae were often assigned to a more broadly defined family Liliaceae, but for the past twenty to thirty years most botanists have accepted Smilacaceae as a distinct...

       Vent.
  • Asparagales
    Asparagales
    Asparagales is the name of an order of plants, used in modern classification systems such as the APG III system . The order takes its name from the family Asparagaceae and is placed in the monocots. The order has only recently been recognized in classification systems...

     Link
    • $Amaryllidaceae
      Amaryllidaceae
      Amaryllidoideae is the subfamily of flowering plants that takes its name from the genus Amaryllis. It is part of the family Amaryllidaceae, in order Asparagales...

       J.St.-Hil. (including Agapanthaceae
      Agapanthaceae
      Agapanthoideae is a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Agapanthaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the sole included type genus, Agapanthus. Previously the genus Agapanthus...

       F.Voigt, Alliaceae
      Alliaceae
      Allioideae is the botanical name of a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Alliaceae...

       Borkh.)
    • $Asparagaceae
      Asparagaceae
      Asparagaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.In earlier classification systems, the species involved were often treated as belonging to the family Liliaceae...

       Juss. (including Agavaceae
      Agavaceae
      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 agave, yucca, and Joshua tree...

       Dumort., Aphyllanthaceae
      Aphyllanthaceae
      Aphyllanthoideae is a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Aphyllanthaceae...

       Burnett, Hesperocallidaceae
      Hesperocallidaceae
      Hesperocallis is a genus of flowering plants that includes a single species, Hesperocallis undulata, the desert lily or ajo lily, found in the desert areas of the southwest of North America....

       Traub, Hyacinthaceae
      Hyacinthaceae
      Scilloideae is a subfamily of the monocot family Asparagaceae in the order Asparagales. The Scilloideae are bulbous flowering plants, which have sometimes been placed in a separate family, the Hyacinthaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Scilla...

       Batsch ex Borkh., Laxmanniaceae
      Laxmanniaceae
      Lomandroideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales, according to the APG III system of 2009. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Lomandra. The group has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae...

       Bubani, Ruscaceae
      Ruscaceae
      Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009. It was previously treated as a separate family, Ruscaceae s.l...

       M.Roem., Themidaceae
      Themidaceae
      Brodiaeoideae is a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales. It has been treated as a separate family, Themidaceae. They are native to Central America and western North America, from British Columbia to Guatemala...

       Salisb.)
    • Asteliaceae
      Asteliaceae
      Asteliaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 does recognize this family...

       Dumort.
    • Blandfordiaceae R.Dahlgren & Clifford
    • Boryaceae
      Boryaceae
      Boryaceae is a family of arborescent, or tree forming, highly drought-tolerant flowering plants native to Australia, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots...

       M.W.Chase, Rudall & Conran
    • Doryanthaceae
      Doryanthaceae
      Doryanthaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 does recognize this family...

       R.Dahlgren & Clifford
    • Hypoxidaceae
      Hypoxidaceae
      Hypoxidaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 does recognize this family...

       R.Br.
    • Iridaceae
      Iridaceae
      The Iris family or Iridaceae is a family of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants included in the monocot order Asparagales, taking its name from the genus Iris. Almost worldwide in distribution and one of the most important families in horticulture, it includes more than 2000 species...

       Juss.
    • Ixioliriaceae
      Ixioliriaceae
      Ixiolirion is the botanical name of a genus of flowering plants from Southwest Asia, placed in the mongeneric family Ixioliriaceae in the order Asparagales of the monocots....

       Nakai
    • Lanariaceae
      Lanariaceae
      Lanariaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 does recognize this family. The family then includes a single species Lanariaceae is the...

       R.Dahlgren & A.E.van Wyk
    • Orchidaceae
      Orchidaceae
      The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...

       Juss.
    • Tecophilaeaceae
      Tecophilaeaceae
      Tecophilaeaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.The family has only recently been recognized by taxonomists. The APG III system of 2009 does recognize this family...

       Leyb.
    • $Xanthorrhoeaceae
      Xanthorrhoeaceae
      Xanthorrhoeaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants in the order Asparagales. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but the circumscription of the family has varied wildly....

       Dumort. (including Asphodelaceae
      Asphodelaceae
      Asphodeloideae is a subfamily of the monocot family Xanthorrhoeaceae in the order Asparagales. It has previously been treated as a separate family, Asphodelaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Asphodelus...

       Juss. and Hemerocallidaceae
      Hemerocallidaceae
      Hemerocallidoideae is the botanical name of a subfamily of flowering plants, part of the family Xanthorrhoeaceae sensu lato in the monocot order Asparagales according to the APG system of 2009. Earlier classification systems treated the group as a separate family, the Hemerocallidaceae. The name...

       R.Br.)
    • Xeronemataceae
      Xeronemataceae
      Xeronemataceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots.The name was published in 2000 and has therefore been recognized only in recent taxonomies...

       M.W.Chase, Rudall & M.F.Fay

Commelinids
Commelinids
In plant taxonomy, commelinids is a name used by the APG III system for a clade within the monocots, which in its turn is a clade within the angiosperms. The commelinids are the only clade that the APG has informally named within the monocots...

 

  • Dasypogonaceae
    Dasypogonaceae
    Dasypogonaceae is a botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been commonly recognized by taxonomists: the plants involved were usually included in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae....

     Dumort.
  • Arecales Bromhead
    • Arecaceae
      Arecaceae
      Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...

       Bercht. & J.Presl
  • Commelinales
    Commelinales
    Commelinales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. It comprises five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae. All the families combined contain over 800 species in about 70 genera; the majority of species are in the Commelinaceae...

     Mirb. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Commelinaceae
      Commelinaceae
      Commelinaceae is a family of flowering plants. In less formal contexts, the group is referred to as the dayflower family or spiderwort family. It is one of five families in the order Commelinales and by far the largest of these with an estimated 650 species in 40 genera. Well known genera include...

       Mirb.
    • Haemodoraceae
      Haemodoraceae
      Haemodoraceae is a family of flowering plants. It is sometimes known as the "Bloodwort family". Primarily a Southern Hemisphere family, they are found in South Africa, Australia and New Guinea, and in the Americas Haemodoraceae is a family of flowering plants. It is sometimes known as the...

       R.Br.
    • Hanguanaceae
      Hanguanaceae
      Hanguanaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 does recognize such a family and places it in the order Commelinales, in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       Airy Shaw
    • Philydraceae
      Philydraceae
      Philydraceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has not been recognized by many taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family and places it in the order Commelinales, in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       Link
    • Pontederiaceae
      Pontederiaceae
      Pontederiaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants.The APG II system, of 2003 places the family in the order Commelinales, in the commelinid clade, in the monocots. It is a small family of heterostylous aquatic plants, occurring in tropical and subtropical waters...

       Kunth
  • Poales
    Poales
    Poales is a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges. Sixteen plant families are currently recognized by botanists to be part of Poales....

     Small
    • Anarthriaceae
      Anarthriaceae
      Anarthriaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has rarely been recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       D.F.Cutler & Airy Shaw
    • Bromeliaceae
      Bromeliaceae
      Bromeliaceae is a family of monocot flowering plants of around 3,170 species native mainly to the tropical Americas, with a few species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana...

       Juss.
    • Centrolepidaceae
      Centrolepidaceae
      Centrolepidaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognises such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots.The family is now regarded as...

       Endl.
    • Cyperaceae
      Cyperaceae
      Cyperaceae are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes. The family is large, with some 5,500 species described in about 109 genera. These species are widely distributed, with the centers of diversity for the group...

       Juss.
    • Ecdeiocoleaceae
      Ecdeiocoleaceae
      Ecdeiocoleaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has rarely been recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, in 2003 , does recognize such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       D.F.Cutler & Airy Shaw
    • Eriocaulaceae
      Eriocaulaceae
      The Eriocaulaceae or pipewort family is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the order Poales. The family is large, with about 1,150-1,200 species described in ten genera. The family is widely distributed, with the centers of diversity for the group occurring in tropical regions,...

       Martinov
    • Flagellariaceae
      Flagellariaceae
      Flagellariaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has rarely been recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       Dumort.
    • Joinvilleaceae
      Joinvilleaceae
      Joinvilleaceae is a family of flowering plants. The APG II system, of 2003 assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids in the monocots. The family consists of one genus with four currently accepted species, distributed from the Malay Peninsula to the Caroline Islands and high islands...

       Toml. & A.C.Sm.
    • Juncaceae
      Juncaceae
      Juncaceae, the rush family, are a monocotyledonous family of flowering plants. There are eight genera and about 400 species. Members of the Juncaceae are slow-growing, rhizomatous, herbaceous plants, and they may superficially resemble grasses. They often grow on infertile soils in a wide range...

       Juss.
    • Mayacaceae
      Mayacaceae
      Mayaca is a genus of flowering plants, often placed in its own family, the Mayacaceae. In the APG II system of 2003, it is assigned to the Order Poales in the clade commelinids. The Cronquist system, of 1981, also recognised such a family and placed it in the order Commelinales in the subclass...

       Kunth
    • Poaceae
      Poaceae
      The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...

       Barnhart
    • Rapateaceae
      Rapateaceae
      Rapateaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       Dumort.
    • Restionaceae
      Restionaceae
      Restionaceae, also called restiads, is the botanical name for a family of rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere.- Description :...

       R.Br.
    • Thurniaceae
      Thurniaceae
      Thurniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes such a family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       Engl.
    • §Typhaceae
      Typhaceae
      Typhaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       Juss. (including Sparganiaceae
      Sparganiaceae
      Sparganiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family was previously recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots...

       Hanin)
    • Xyridaceae
      Xyridaceae
      Xyridaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by many taxonomists and is known as the Yellow-eyed-grass Family....

       C.Agardh
  • Zingiberales
    Zingiberales
    Zingiberales is an order of flowering plants. The order has been widely recognised by the taxonomists, at least for the past few decades. This order includes many familiar plants like ginger, cardamom, turmeric, galangal and myoga of the Zingiberaceae or ginger family, and bananas and plantains...

     Griseb.
    • Cannaceae Juss.
    • Costaceae
      Costaceae
      Costaceae or the Costus Family is a family of pantropical monocots. They belong to the order Zingiberales, which contains other horticulturally and economically important plants such as the banana , bird-of-paradise , and edible ginger...

       Nakai
    • Heliconiaceae Vines
    • Lowiaceae
      Lowiaceae
      Orchidantha is a genus of flowering plants, often given its own family, Lowiaceae. It includes the plants in the formerly recognised genera Lowia, Protamomum and Wolfia. Orchidantha remains a poorly known genus, with up to about a dozen species, found from southern China to Borneo...

       Ridl.
    • Marantaceae
      Marantaceae
      The Marantaceae or arrowroot family is a family of flowering plants known for its large starchy rhizomes. It is sometimes called the prayer-plant family...

       R.Br.
    • Musaceae
      Musaceae
      Musaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is native to the tropics of Africa and Asia. The plants have a large herbaceous growth habit with leaves with overlapping basal sheaths that form a pseudostem making some members appear to be woody trees.The family has been...

       Juss.
    • Strelitziaceae
      Strelitziaceae
      Strelitziaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The plants are very similar in appearance and growth habit to members of the related families Heliconiaceae and Musaceae...

       Hutch.
    • Zingiberaceae
      Zingiberaceae
      Zingiberaceae, or the Ginger family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes, comprising ca. 52 genera and more than 1300 species, distributed throughout tropical Africa, Asia, and the Americas.Many species are important...

       Martinov

Probable sister of eudicots
Eudicots
Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are botanical terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton to refer to a monophyletic group of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-Magnoliid dicots by previous authors...

 

  • Ceratophyllales Link
    • Ceratophyllaceae Gray

Eudicots
Eudicots
Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are botanical terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton to refer to a monophyletic group of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-Magnoliid dicots by previous authors...

 

  • Ranunculales
    Ranunculales
    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 known as the basal eudicots...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Berberidaceae
      Berberidaceae
      Berberidaceae are a family of 15 genera flowering plants commonly called the barberry family. This family is in the order Ranunculales. The family contains about 570 species, of which the majority are in Berberis...

       Juss.
    • $Circaeasteraceae
      Circaeasteraceae
      Circaeasteraceae is a family of one to two species of herbaceous plants native to China and the Himalayas.The family has been recognized by many taxonomists. The APG II system , recognizes it and places it in the order Ranunculales in the clade eudicots...

       Hutch. (including Kingdoniaceae
      Kingdoniaceae
      Kingdonia uniflora is a species of perennial herbs native to China. The plants have one leaf and a short flower stalk with a small flower.It grows at high elevations in West and North China.- Classification :...

       Airy Shaw)
    • Eupteleaceae
      Eupteleaceae
      Eupteleaceae is a family of flowering plants.The family has been recognized by many taxonomists. The APG II system , recognizes it and places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots. The family consists of a single genus Euptelea, with two species, native to eastern Asia.-External...

       K.Wilh.
    • Lardizabalaceae
      Lardizabalaceae
      Lardizabalaceae is a family of flowering plants.The family has been universally recognized by taxonomists, including the APG II system , which places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots....

       R.Br.
    • Menispermaceae
      Menispermaceae
      Menispermaceae, the botanical name for a family of flowering plants, has been universally recognized by taxonomists. Tubocurare, a neuromuscular blocker and active ingredient in curare, is derived from plants of this family....

       Juss.
    • $Papaveraceae
      Papaveraceae
      Papaveraceae, informally known as the poppy family, are an economically important family of 44 genera and approximately 770 species of flowering plants in the order Ranunculales. The family is cosmopolitan, occurring in temperate and subtropical climates, but almost unknown in the tropics...

       Juss. (including Fumariaceae
      Fumariaceae
      Fumariaceae is a family of about 575 species of herbaceous plants in 20 genera, native to the Northern Hemisphere and South Africa.-Flower shape:Plants in the fumitory family are easily recognised by their peculiar flowers with two dissimilar pairs of...

       Marquis, Pteridophyllaceae Nakai ex Reveal & Hoogland)
    • Ranunculaceae
      Ranunculaceae
      Ranunculaceae are a family of about 1700 species of flowering plants in about 60 genera, distributed worldwide....

       Juss.
  • Sabiaceae
    Sabiaceae
    Sabiaceae is a family of flowering plants, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern Asia and the Americas.In the Cronquist system the family was placed in the order Ranunculales, but more recent classifications place it as the sole family in the order Sabiales, or , as unplaced to...

     Blume
  • Proteales
    Proteales
    Proteales is the botanical name of an order of flowering plants. Such an order has been recognized by almost all taxonomists.-Families:The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this order, and places it in the clade eudicots with this circumscription:...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Nelumbonaceae A.Rich.
    • $$Platanaceae
      Platanaceae
      Platanaceae is a family of flowering plants. It has been recognized by almost all taxonomists, and is sometimes called the "plane-tree family"....

       T.Lestib.
    • $$Proteaceae
      Proteaceae
      Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...

       Juss.
  • †Trochodendrales Takht. ex Cronquist
    • $Trochodendraceae
      Trochodendraceae
      Trochodendraceae is a family of flowering plants with two living genera found in southeast Asia. The two living species share the feature of secondary xylem without vessels, which is quite rare in angiosperms...

       Eichler (including Tetracentraceae A.C.Sm.)
  • Buxales
    Buxales
    Buxales is a botanical name at the rank of order.Under the APG II system, Buxaceae is a family unplaced as to order in the eudicots. This family may optionally include the genus Didymeles, which in Cronquist system was given its own family and order, placed in subclass Hamamelidae...

     Takht. ex Reveal
    • $Buxaceae
      Buxaceae
      Buxaceae are a small family of four or five genera and about 90-120 species of flowering plants. They are shrubs and small trees, with a cosmopolitan distribution...

       Dumort. (including Didymelaceae
      Didymelaceae
      Didymelaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by a fair number of taxonomists, at least over the past few decades....

       Leandri)
    • *Haptanthaceae C.Nelson

Core eudicots 

  • Gunnerales
    Gunnerales
    Gunnerales is an order of flowering plants. In the APG III system it contains two genera: Gunnera and Myrothamnus. These are assigned to two separate families . In the Cronquist system Gunneraceae was placed in the Haloragales and Myrothamnaceae in the Hamamelidales.-External links:* in Stevens,...

     Takht. ex Reveal
    • $$Gunneraceae
      Gunneraceae
      Gunneraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Gunnerales in the clade core eudicots. The family then consists of one or two genera, Gunnera...

       Meisn.
    • $$Myrothamnaceae
      Myrothamnaceae
      Myrothamnaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, having been included in order Hamamelidales in the Cronquist system. The APG II system includes Myrothamnaceae in Gunneraceae but allows for the optional segregation of...

       Nied.
  • Dilleniaceae
    Dilleniaceae
    Dilleniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It is known to gardeners for the genus Hibbertia, which contains many commercially valuable garden species....

     Salisb.
  • Saxifragales
    Saxifragales
    Saxifragales is an order of flowering plants. Their closest relatives are a large eudicot group known as the rosids by the definition of rosids given in the APG II classification system. Some authors define the rosids more widely, including Saxifragales as their most basal group. Saxifragales is...

     Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Altingiaceae
      Altingiaceae
      Altingiaceae, a small family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, are wind-pollinated trees that produce hard, woody fruits containing numerous seeds. The fruits have been studied in considerable detail. They naturally occur in Central America, Mexico, eastern North America, the...

       Horan.
    • Aphanopetalaceae Doweld
    • Cercidiphyllaceae Engl.
    • Crassulaceae
      Crassulaceae
      Crassulaceae, or the orpine family, are a family of dicotyledons. They store water in their succulent leaves. They are found worldwide, but mostly occur in the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa, typically in dry and/or cold areas where water may be scarce...

       J.St.-Hil.
    • Daphniphyllaceae Müll.-Arg.
    • Grossulariaceae DC.
    • $$Haloragaceae
      Haloragaceae
      Haloragaceae is a dicotyledon flowering plant family in the order Saxifragales, based on the phylogenetic APG III system. In the Cronquist system, it was included in the order Haloragales.- Distribution :...

       R.Br.
    • Hamamelidaceae
      Hamamelidaceae
      The Hamamelidaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, including 27 genera and about 80-90 species, all shrubs and small trees...

       R.Br.
    • $Iteaceae
      Iteaceae
      Iteaceae is a flowering plant family of trees and shrubs native to the eastern USA, south eastern Africa, and south and Southeastern Asia. Some older taxonomic systems place the genera in this family in the Grossulariaceae. The APG III system of 2009 includes the former Pterostemonaceae in Iteaceae...

       J.Agardh (including Pterostemonaceae
      Pterostemonaceae
      Pterostemonaceae Small is a small family of shrubs native to tropical and subtropical Mexico. The family was recognized by scientists working with the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group but is placed in the Grossulariaceae by other taxonomic systems...

       Small)
    • Paeoniaceae Raf.
    • $$Penthoraceae
      Penthoraceae
      Penthoraceae is a flowering plant family of rhizome forming herbs native to eastern North America and Eastern and Southeastern Asia.-References:* in Stevens, P. F. ....

       Rydb. ex Britt.
    • Peridiscaceae
      Peridiscaceae
      Peridiscaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales. It comprises four genera: Medusandra, Soyauxia, Peridiscus, and Whittonia. It has a disjunct distribution, with Peridiscus occurring in Venezuela and northern Brazil, Whittonia in Guyana, Medusandra in Cameroon, and Soyauxia...

       Kuhlm. (including Medusandraceae
      Medusandraceae
      Medusandra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Peridiscaceae. It has two species, Medusandra richardsiana and Medusandra mpomiana. M. richardsiana is the most common and well known. Both species are native to Cameroon and adjacent countries. Medusandra was named by John Brenan in 1952...

       Brenan, Soyauxia Oliver)
    • Saxifragaceae
      Saxifragaceae
      Saxifragaceae is a plant family with about 460 known species in 36 genera. In Europe there are 12 genera.The flowers are hermaphroditic and actinomorphic...

       Juss.
    • $$Tetracarpaeaceae Nakai
  • Berberidopsidales
    Berberidopsidales
    Berberidopsidales Doweld is a botanical name at the rank of order. This name is only newly published: such an order has been recognized by very few taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003, merely mentions the possibility of recognizing the order, as...

     Doweld
    • Aextoxicaceae Engl. & Gilg
    • Berberidopsidaceae
      Berberidopsidaceae
      Berberidopsidaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by only a few taxonomists: the plants involved have often been treated as belonging to family Flacourtiaceae....

       Takht.
  • Santalales
    Santalales
    Santalales is an order of flowering plants with a cosmopolitan distribution, but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.Most have seeds without a testa, which is unusual for flowering plants...

     R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • *Balanophoraceae
      Balanophoraceae
      Balanophoraceae is a subtropical to tropical family of obligate parasitic flowering plants, notable for their unusual development and obscure affinities. The family consist of 17 genera and approximately 50 species...

       Rich.
    • Loranthaceae
      Loranthaceae
      Loranthaceae is a family of flowering plants, which has been universally recognized by taxonomists. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemi-parasites, all of them except three having the mistletoe habit...

       Juss.
    • Misodendraceae
      Misodendraceae
      Misodendron is a genus of hemiparasites which grow as mistletoes on various species of Nothofagus. The twelve species are all restricted to South America.Misodendron is placed in its own family, Misodendraceae, in the order Santalales...

       J.Agardh
    • Santalaceae
      Santalaceae
      Santalaceae is a widely distributed family of flowering plants which, like other members of Santalales, are partially parasitic on other plants...

       R.Br.
    • Olacaceae
      Olacaceae
      Olacaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Santalales. They are woody plants, native throughout the tropical regions of the world....

       R.Br.
    • Opiliaceae
      Opiliaceae
      Opiliaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. It consists of perhaps a dozen genera, totalling several dozen species of tropical woody plants. Several genera contain parasitic species. The biggest genus, in number of species and in stature of the individual plants, is...

       Valeton
    • *Schoepfiaceae
      Schoepfiaceae
      Schoepfiacaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants . Such a family has been recognized by few taxonomists; the plants in question usually being assigned to family Olacaceae and Santalaceae....

       Blume
  • Caryophyllales
    Caryophyllales
    Caryophyllales is an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, and many carnivorous plants. Many members are succulent, having fleshy stems or leaves.-Description:...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Achatocarpaceae
      Achatocarpaceae
      Achatocarpaceae is a family of woody flowering plants. The family consists of two genera and ten species, and has been recognized by most taxonomists. It is found from the southwestern United States south to tropical and subtropical South America....

       Heimerl
    • Aizoaceae
      Aizoaceae
      The Family Aizoaceae or Ficoidaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1900 species. They are commonly known as stone plants or carpet weeds. Species that resemble stones or pebbles are sometimes called mesembs...

       Martinov
    • Amaranthaceae
      Amaranthaceae
      The flowering plant family Amaranthaceae, the Amaranth family, contains about 176 genera and 2,400 species.- Description :Most of these species are herbs or subshrubs; very few are trees or climbers. Some species are succulent....

       Juss.
    • *Anacampserotaceae
      Anacampserotaceae
      Anacampserotaceae is a family of plants that was proposed in the February 2010 issue of the journal Taxon. It was described by Urs Eggli and Reto Nyffeler in their analysis of the polyphyly in the suborder Portulacineae . The new family and its circumscription was based on molecular and...

       Eggli & Nyffeler
    • Ancistrocladaceae
      Ancistrocladaceae
      Ancistrocladaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been widely recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots...

       Planch. ex Walp.
    • Asteropeiaceae
      Asteropeiaceae
      Asteropeiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by very few taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 does recognize such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots...

       Takht. ex Reveal & Hoogland
    • Barbeuiaceae
      Barbeuiaceae
      Barbeuia madagascariensis is a liana found only on the island of Madagascar.Barbeuia has occasionally been placed in its own family, Barbeuiaceae. The APG II system of 2003, for instance, recognies such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots...

       Nakai
    • Basellaceae
      Basellaceae
      Basellaceae is a family of flowering plants, in the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots, according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group...

       Raf.
    • Cactaceae Juss.
    • Caryophyllaceae
      Caryophyllaceae
      The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae and Polygonaceae...

       Juss.
    • §Didiereaceae
      Didiereaceae
      Didiereaceae is a small family of just four genera and 11 species of flowering plants endemic to south and southwest Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests.-Description:...

       Radlk.
    • Dioncophyllaceae
      Dioncophyllaceae
      Dioncophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of three species of lianas native to the rainforests of western Africa.Its closest relative is Ancistrocladaceae. Both of these families lie within a clade of mostly carnivorous plants which since 1998 or so have been moved to the order...

       Airy Shaw
    • Droseraceae
      Droseraceae
      Droseraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is also known under its common name, the sundew family.It consists of carnivorous plants: besides the sundews, the genus Drosera, it also contains the even more-famous Venus fly trap Dionaea muscipula...

       Salisb.
    • Drosophyllaceae Chrtek, Slavíková & Studnicka
    • Frankeniaceae
      Frankeniaceae
      Frankeniaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been widely recognized by many taxonomists; it has commonly been assumed to be closely related to family Tamaricaceae....

       Desv.
    • Gisekiaceae
      Gisekiaceae
      Gisekiaceae is a family of flowering plants.The family has not been recognized by most taxonomists. The APG II system does recognize the family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots...

       Nakai
    • Halophytaceae
      Halophytaceae
      Halophytum ameghinoi is a species of herbaceous plant endemic to Patagonia. It is a succulent annual plant, with simple, fleshy, alternate leaves. The plants are monoecious, with solitary female flowers and inflorescences of male flowers on the same plant .Halophytum has sometimes been placed...

       A.Soriano
    • *Limeaceae Shipunov ex Reveal
    • *Lophiocarpaceae Doweld & Reveal
    • §Molluginaceae
      Molluginaceae
      Molluginaceae is a family of flowering plants recognized by several taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes such a family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots...

       Bartl.
    • *Montiaceae
      Montiaceae
      Montiaceae is a family of flowering plants, comprising about 14 genera with some 500 species, ranging from herbaceous plants to shrubs. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution....

       Raf.
    • Nepenthaceae Dumort.
    • Nyctaginaceae
      Nyctaginaceae
      Nyctaginaceae, the Four O'Clock Family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions...

       Juss.
    • Physenaceae
      Physenaceae
      Physenaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. This family has been only recently recognized by taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , does recognize this family and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots...

       Takht.
    • Phytolaccaceae
      Phytolaccaceae
      Phytolaccaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been almost universally recognized by taxonomists, although its circumscription has varied. It is also known as the Pokeweed family....

       R.Br.
    • Plumbaginaceae
      Plumbaginaceae
      Plumbaginaceae is a family of flowering plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The family is sometimes referred to as the leadwort family or the plumbago family....

       Juss.
    • Polygonaceae
      Polygonaceae
      Polygonaceae is a family of flowering plants known informally as the "knotweed family" or "smartweed family"— "buckwheat family" in the United States. The name is based on the genus Polygonum and was first used by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 in his book, Genera Plantarum. The name refers...

       Juss.
    • §Portulacaceae
      Portulacaceae
      Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising about 20 genera with about 500 species, ranging from herbaceous plants to shrubs. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is also known as the purslane family; it has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the highest diversity...

       Juss.
    • Rhabdodendraceae
      Rhabdodendraceae
      Rhabdodendron is a genus comprising 2–3 species of tropical South American trees.Rhabdodendron is placed in its own family, Rhabdodendraceae, which has only been recognized for the past few decades. The 2003 APG II system assigned it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots...

       Prance
    • Sarcobataceae
      Sarcobataceae
      Sarcobataceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. This name has only recently been published, and such a family has been recognized by very few taxonomists....

       Behnke
    • Simmondsiaceae
      Simmondsiaceae
      Simmondsiaceae or the Jojoba Family is a family of flowering plants. The family is not recognized by all taxonomic systems, the single species, Simmondsia chinensis, often being treated as belonging to family Buxaceae....

       Tiegh.
    • Stegnospermataceae
      Stegnospermataceae
      Stegnospermataceae is a family of flowering plants.The family has only been recognized by a few taxonomists, the plants in it more commonly assigned to the family Phytolaccaceae...

       Nakai
    • *Talinaceae Doweld
    • Tamaricaceae
      Tamaricaceae
      Tamaricaceae is a flowering plant family containing four genera. In the 1980s, the family was classified in the Violales under the Cronquist system; more modern classifications place them in the Caryophyllales.The family is native to drier areas of Europe, Asia and Africa...

       Link

Rosids
Rosids
The rosids are members of a large clade of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms. The clade is divided into 16 to 20 orders, depending upon circumscription and classification. These orders, in turn, together comprise about 140 families...

 

  • †Vitales Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Vitaceae
      Vitaceae
      Vitaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants including the grapevine and Virginia creeper. The family name is derived from the genus Vitis...

       Juss.

Eurosids I 

  • Zygophyllales
    Zygophyllales
    The Zygophyllales are an order of dicotyledon plants, comprising the following two families:* Family Zygophyllaceae* Family KrameriaceaeAccording to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group both families are unplaced to order, but nevertheless included in the Eurosids I. The APG III system of 2009, however,...

     Link
    • $$Krameriaceae Dumort.
    • $$Zygophyllaceae
      Zygophyllaceae
      The Zygophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants that contains the bean-caper and caltrop. It includes around 285 species in 22 genera.In the APG III system of classification, the families Zygophyllaceae and Krameriaceae compose the order Zygophyllales...

       R.Br.
  • Celastrales
    Celastrales
    Celastrales is an order of flowering plants. They are found throughout the tropics and subtropics, with only a few species extending far into the temperate regions. There are about 1200 to 1350 species in about 100 genera. All but 7 of these genera are in the large family Celastraceae...

     Link
    • $Celastraceae
      Celastraceae
      The Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales...

       R.Br. (including Lepuropetalaceae Nakai, Parnassiaceae
      Parnassiaceae
      Parnassiaceae Gray is a family of Flowering plants in the eudicot order Celastrales. It is not recognized in the APG III system of plant classification. When that system was published in 2009, Parnassiaceae was treated as a segregate of an expanded Celastraceae. Parnassiaceae has only two...

       Martinov, Pottingeriaceae Takht.)
    • Lepidobotryaceae
      Lepidobotryaceae
      Lepidobotryaceae is a flowering plant family in the order Celastrales. It contains only two species, Lepidobotrys staudtii and Ruptiliocarpon caracolito.- Description :...

       J.Léonard
  • Oxalidales
    Oxalidales
    The Oxalidales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of eudicots. The following families are typically placed here:* Family Brunelliaceae* Family Cephalotaceae * Family Connaraceae...

     Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Brunelliaceae Engl.
    • Cephalotaceae Dumort.
    • Connaraceae
      Connaraceae
      The Connaraceae is a family of 16 genera and about 350 species.-Genera:* Agelaea* Burttia* Cnestidium* Cnestis* Connarus* Ellipanthus* Hemandradenia* Jollydora* Manotes* Pseudoconnarus* Rourea...

       R.Br.
    • Cunoniaceae
      Cunoniaceae
      The Cunoniaceae is a family of 26 genera and about 350 species of woody plants in the Antarctic flora, with many laurifolia species with glossy leaves endemic to laurel forest habitat. The family is native to Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Zealand, southern South America, the Mascarene...

       R.Br.
    • Elaeocarpaceae
      Elaeocarpaceae
      Elaeaocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family approximately contains 605 species of trees and shrubs in 12 genera. The largest genera are Elaeocarpus, with about 350 species, and Sloanea, with about 150....

       Juss. ex DC.
    • *Huaceae
      Huaceae
      Huaceae is a family of plant in the rosids group, which has been classed in the orders Malpighiales, Malvales, and Violales or in its own order Huales. The APG II system places it in the clade eurosids I, whereas the APG III system of 2009 placed it within the Oxalidales. It contains the following...

       A.Chev.
    • Oxalidaceae
      Oxalidaceae
      The Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, are 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...

       R.Br.
  • Malpighiales
    Malpighiales
    Malpighiales is one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 16000 species, approximately 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse and hard to recognize except with molecular phylogenetic evidence. It is not part of any of the classification systems that are based only on...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Achariaceae
      Achariaceae
      Achariaceae is a family of flowering plants, formerly consisting of 6 species in 3 genera of herb and shrubs endemic to southern Africa. More recently, the APG II system has greatly expanded the scope of the family by including many genera previously classified in the Flacourtiaceae. Molecular...

       Harms
    • Balanopaceae Benth. & Hook.f.
    • Bonnetiaceae
      Bonnetiaceae
      Bonnetiaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 3 genera and 35 species. The genus wholly belongs to the Neotropics, except the genus Ploiarium, which is also found in Malesia....

       L.Beauvis. ex Nakai
    • *Calophyllaceae
      Calophyllaceae
      Calophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales and is recognized by the APG III system of classification. Most of the genera included in this family were previously recognized in the tribe Calophylleae of the Clusiaceae family. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group...

       J.Agardh
    • Caryocaraceae
      Caryocaraceae
      Caryocaraceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of two genera and about 25 species. The family is exclusively neotropical.- Species :Anthodiscus*Anthodiscus obovatus Benth. ex Wittm.*Anthodiscus pilosus Ducke...

       Voigt
    • *Centroplacaceae
      Centroplacaceae
      Centroplacaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales and is recognized by the APG III system of classification. The family comprises two genera: Bhesa, which was formerly recognized in the Celastraceae, and Centroplacus, which was formerly recognized in the Euphorbiaceae...

       Doweld & Reveal
    • $$Chrysobalanaceae
      Chrysobalanaceae
      Chrysobalanaceae is a family of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, consisting of 17 genera and about 460 species of leptocaul that grows in the Tropics or is subtropical and common in the Americas...

       R.Br.
    • §Clusiaceae
      Clusiaceae
      The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. is a family of plants formerly including about 37 genera and 1610 species of trees and shrubs, often with milky sap and fruits or capsules for seeds. It is primarily tropical...

       Lindl.
    • Ctenolophonaceae Exell & Mendonça
    • $$Dichapetalaceae
      Dichapetalaceae
      Dichapetalaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 3 genera and about 165 species. Members of this family are trees, shrubs or lianas found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world....

       Baill.
    • Elatinaceae
      Elatinaceae
      Elatinaceae is a family of flowering plants with 35-50 species in 2 genera: Elatine and Bergia. The Elatine are mostly aquatic herbs, and the Bergia are subshrubs to shrubs. Elatine species are widely distributed throughout the world from temperate to tropical zones, with its greatest diversity...

       Dumort.
    • $$§Erythroxylaceae
      Erythroxylaceae
      The Erythroxylaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of 4 genera and approximately 240 species. The best-known species is the coca plant , the source of the drug cocaine....

       Kunth (including Aneulophus Benth.)
    • Euphorbiaceae
      Euphorbiaceae
      Euphorbiaceae, the Spurge family are a large family of flowering plants with 300 genera and around 7,500 species. Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are also shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti....

       Juss.
    • $$Euphroniaceae Marc.-Berti
    • Goupiaceae Miers
    • Humiriaceae
      Humiriaceae
      Humiriaceae is a family of evergreen flowering plants. It comprises 8 genera and about 50 species.The family is exclusively neotropical, except one species found in tropical West Africa....

       A.Juss.
    • Hypericaceae
      Hypericaceae
      Hypericaceae is a plant family in the order Malpighiales. Molecular data supports its monophyly. Some systematists treat it as a subfamily of the Clusiaceae. When it is accepted as a distinct family, it contains the following genera:* Cratoxylum Blume...

       Juss.
    • Irvingiaceae
      Irvingiaceae
      Irvingiaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 20 species in 3 genera.The family is named for the Scottish naval surgeon, Edward George Irving....

       Exell & Mendonça
    • Ixonanthaceae
      Ixonanthaceae
      Ixonanthaceae is a family of woody flowering plants up to 90 m tall , consisting of about 30 species in 4 or 5 genera....

       Planch. ex Miq.
    • Lacistemataceae
      Lacistemataceae
      Lacistemataceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting 2 genera, Lacistema Sw. and Lozania Mutis ex Caldas .- Common name :Waits Numi...

       Mart.
    • Linaceae
      Linaceae
      The Linaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family is cosmopolitan, and includes approximately 250 species. There are 14 genera, classified into two subfamilies: Linoideae and Hugonioideae ....

       DC. ex Perleb
    • Lophopyxidaceae H.Pfeiff.
    • Malpighiaceae
      Malpighiaceae
      Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. It comprises approximately 75 genera and 1300 species, all of which are native to the tropics and subtropics...

       Juss.
    • $Ochnaceae
      Ochnaceae
      The family Ochnaceae, or wild plane family, comprises mainly trees or shrubs, and more rarely herbaceous plants. Species of the Ochnaceae are found from subtropical to tropical regions. They are best represented in South America...

       DC. (including Medusagynaceae Engl. & Gilg, Quiinaceae
      Quiinaceae
      Quiinaceae Engl. is a neotropical family of flowering plants in the Malpighiales, consisting of about 50 species in 4 genera . The APG III system of flowering plant classification does not recognize such a family, instead including these genera in the Ochnaceae family.- External links :* in ...

       Choisy)
    • Pandaceae
      Pandaceae
      The family Pandaceae consists of three genera that were formerly recognized in the Euphorbiaceae. Those are:*Galearia...

       Engl. & Gilg
    • $Passifloraceae
      Passifloraceae
      Passifloraceae is a family of flowering plants, containing about 530 species classified in around 18 genera. They include trees, shrubs, lianas and climbing plants, and are mostly found in tropical regions....

       Juss. ex Roussel (including Malesherbiaceae D.Don, Turneraceae
      Turneraceae
      Turneraceae Kunth ex DC. is a family of flowering plants consisting of 120 species in 10 genera. The Cronquist system placed the Turneracids in the order Violales, but it is not currently recognized as a valid family by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group in the APG III system of 2009, which includes...

       Kunth ex DC.)
    • Phyllanthaceae
      Phyllanthaceae
      Phyllanthaceae is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales. It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae. The Phyllanthaceae are most numerous in the tropics, with many in the south temperate zone, and a few ranging as far north as the middle of the north temperate...

       Martinov
    • Picrodendraceae
      Picrodendraceae
      Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 species in 24 genera. These are subtropical to tropical and found in New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia, Madagascar, continental Africa as well as tropical America....

       Small
    • Podostemaceae
      Podostemaceae
      The Podostemaceae is a family in the order Malpighiales. It comprises about 50 genera and 250 species of more or less thalloid aquatic herbs....

       Rich. ex Kunth
    • Putranjivaceae
      Putranjivaceae
      The rosid family Putranjivaceae is composed of about 210 species of evergreen tropical trees distributed into 4 genera. Members of this family have 2-ranked coriaceous leaves, which, if fresh, typically have a radish-like or peppery taste. The flowers are fasciculate and usually small, and the...

       Meisn.
    • *Rafflesiaceae
      Rafflesiaceae
      Rafflesiaceae is a family of parasitic plants found in east and southeast Asia, including Rafflesia arnoldii, the plant with the largest flower of all plants. The plants are endoparasites of vines in the genus Tetrastigma and lack stems, leaves, roots, and any photosynthetic tissue...

       Dumort.
    • $$Rhizophoraceae
      Rhizophoraceae
      Rhizophoraceae is a family constituted by tropical or subtropical flowering plants. Among the better known members are mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora...

       Pers.
    • Salicaceae
      Salicaceae
      Salicaceae are a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 55 genera....

       Mirb.
    • $$Trigoniaceae
      Trigoniaceae
      Trigoniaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 28 species in 4 genera. It is a tropical family found in Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Central and South America....

       A.Juss.
    • Violaceae
      Violaceae
      Violaceae are a family of flowering plants consisting of about 800 species in 21 genera. It takes its name from the genus Viola, the violets and pansies.Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed Violaceae in an order named after it, the Violales...

       Batsch
  • Cucurbitales
    Cucurbitales
    The Cucurbitales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. This order mostly belongs to tropical areas, with limited presence in subtropic and temperate regions. The order includes shrubs and trees, together with many herbs and climbers...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Anisophylleaceae
      Anisophylleaceae
      Anisophylleaceae is a small family with four genera in the order Cucurbitales, according to the APG II. However it is more isolated from the other suprafamilal clades in this order, while it shows some similarities in flower morphology with the genus Ceratopetalum...

       Ridl.
    • Begoniaceae
      Begoniaceae
      Begoniaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 1400 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World. All but one of the species are in the genus Begonia. The only other genus in the family, Hillebrandia, is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and has a single...

       C.Agardh
    • Coriariaceae DC.
    • Corynocarpaceae Engl.
    • Cucurbitaceae
      Cucurbitaceae
      The plant family Cucurbitaceae consists of various squashes, melons, and gourds, including crops such as cucumber, pumpkins, luffas, and watermelons...

       Juss.
    • Datiscaceae
      Datiscaceae
      Datiscaceae are a family of Dicotyledonous plants, containing two species of the genus Datisca. Two other genera, Octomeles and Tetrameles are now classified in the Tetramelaceae family....

       Dumort.
    • Tetramelaceae
      Tetramelaceae
      Tetramelaceae is a family of plant formerly classed in the Datiscaceae family. It contains the following genera:* Octomeles* Tetrameles...

       Airy Shaw
  • Fabales
    Fabales
    Fabales is an order of flowering plants. It is included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system...

     Bromhead
    • Fabaceae
      Fabaceae
      The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. The group is the third largest land plant family, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 730 genera and over 19,400 species...

       Lindl.
    • Polygalaceae
      Polygalaceae
      The Polygalaceae or Milkwort family is a family of flowering plants in the order Fabales. They have a near-cosmopolitan range, with about 17 genera and 900–1,000 species of herbs, shrubs and trees...

       Hoffmanns. & Link
    • Quillajaceae D.Don
    • Surianaceae
      Surianaceae
      Surianaceae is a family of plants in the order Fabales. It has an unusual distribution: the genus Recchia is native to Mexico, and the sole member of Suriana, S. maritima, is a coastal plant with a pantropical distribution; and the remaining three genera are endemic to Australia.They range in...

       Arn.
  • Fagales
    Fagales
    The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees. The order name is derived from genus Fagus, Beeches. They belong among the rosid group of dicotyledons...

     Engl.
    • Betulaceae
      Betulaceae
      Betulaceae, or the Birch Family, includes six genera of deciduous nut-bearing trees and shrubs, including the birches, alders, hazels, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams, numbering about 130 species...

       Gray
    • Casuarinaceae
      Casuarinaceae
      Casuarinaceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of 3 or 4 genera and approximately 70 species of trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics , Australia, and the Pacific Islands...

       R.Br.
    • Fagaceae
      Fagaceae
      The family Fagaceae, or beech family, comprises about 900 species of both evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, which are characterized by alternate simple leaves with pinnate venation, unisexual flowers in the form of catkins, and fruit in the form of cup-like nuts. Fagaceous leaves are often...

       Dumort.
    • §Juglandaceae
      Juglandaceae
      The Juglandaceae, also known as the Walnut Family, is a family of trees, or sometimes shrubs, in the order Fagales. Various members of this family are native to the Americas, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia....

       DC. ex Perleb (including Rhoipteleaceae
      Rhoipteleaceae
      Rhoiptelea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Juglandaceae family. It contains a single species, Rhoiptelea chiliantha, commonly known as the horsetail tree. This genus was previously recognized in its own family, Rhoipteleaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 placed it in the...

       Hand.-Mazz.)
    • Myricaceae
      Myricaceae
      The Myricaceae is a small family of dicotyledonous shrubs and small trees in the order Fagales. There are three genera in the family, although some botanists separate many species from Myrica into a fourth genus Morella...

       A.Rich. ex Kunth
    • Nothofagaceae Kuprian
    • Ticodendraceae Gómez-Laur. & L.D.Gómez
  • Rosales
    Rosales
    Rosales is an order of flowering plants. It is one of the four orders in the nitrogen fixing clade of the fabids and is sister to a clade consisting of Fagales and Cucurbitales. It contains about 7700 species, distributed into about 260 genera. Rosales comprises nine families, the type family...

     Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Barbeyaceae Rendle
    • Cannabaceae
      Cannabaceae
      Cannabaceae are a small family of flowering plants. As now circumscribed, the family includes about 170 species grouped in about 11 genera, including Cannabis , Humulus and Celtis...

       Martinov
    • Dirachmaceae Hutch.
    • Elaeagnaceae
      Elaeagnaceae
      Elaeagnaceae, the oleaster family, is a plant family of the order Rosales comprising small trees and shrubs, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, south into tropical Asia and Australia. The family has 45-50 species in three genera....

       Juss.
    • Moraceae
      Moraceae
      Moraceae — often called the mulberry family or fig family — are a family of flowering plants comprising about 40 genera and over 1000 species. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates...

       Gaudich.
    • Rhamnaceae
      Rhamnaceae
      Rhamnaceae, the Buckthorn family, is a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs and some vines.The family contains 50-60 genera and approximately 870-900 species. The Rhamnaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are more common in the subtropical and tropical regions...

       Juss.
    • Rosaceae
      Rosaceae
      Rosaceae are a medium-sized family of flowering plants, including about 2830 species in 95 genera. The name is derived from the type genus Rosa. Among the largest genera are Alchemilla , Sorbus , Crataegus , Cotoneaster , and Rubus...

       Juss.
    • Ulmaceae
      Ulmaceae
      Ulmaceae is a family of flowering plant that includes the elms , and the zelkovas . Members of the family are widely distributed throughout the north temperate zone, and have a scattered distribution elsewhere except for Australasia.The family was formerly sometimes treated to include the...

       Mirb.
    • Urticaceae
      Urticaceae
      Urticaceae, or the nettle family, is a family of flowering plants. The family name comes from the genus Urtica . Urticaceae includes a number of well-known and useful plants, including the aforementioned nettles, Ramie , māmaki , and ajlai .The family includes approximately 2600 species, grouped...

       Juss.

Eurosids II 

  • Geraniales
    Geraniales
    Geraniales are a small order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. The largest family in the order is Geraniaceae with over 800 species. In addition, the order includes some small families, contributing together another less than 40 species...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • $Geraniaceae
      Geraniaceae
      Geraniaceae is a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales. The family name is derived from the genus Geranium. It includes both the genus Geranium and the garden plants called geraniums, which modern botany classifies as genus Pelargonium, along with other related genera.There are...

       Juss. (including Hypseocharitaceae Wedd.)
    • $Melianthaceae
      Melianthaceae
      The Melianthaceae is a family of flowering plants. The APG II system includes them within the rosid clade. All members of the Melianthaceae proper are trees or shrubs found in tropical and southern Africa...

       Horan. (including Francoaceae
      Francoaceae
      The Francoaceae are a small family of plants, including the genus Francoa, commonly known as Bridal Wreaths. There are two genera, each with a single species....

       A.Juss.)
    • §Vivianiaceae
      Vivianiaceae
      Vivianiaceae is 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 genus Caesarea Cambess....

       Klotzsch (including Ledocarpaceae
      Ledocarpaceae
      Ledocarpaceae is a flowering plant family of shrubs native to western South America.-References:* in Stevens, P. F. ....

       Meyen)
  • Myrtales
    Myrtales
    The Myrtales are an order of flowering plants placed as a basal group within the rosid group of dicotyledons...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Alzateaceae S.A.Graham
    • Combretaceae
      Combretaceae
      Combretaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Myrtales. The family includes about 600 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 18 genera. The family includes the leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe. Three genera, Conocarpus, Laguncularia and Lumnitzera, grow in mangrove habitats ....

       R.Br.
    • Crypteroniaceae
      Crypteroniaceae
      Crypteroniaceae is a family of flowering trees and shrubs. The family includes about 10 species in 3 genera, native to Indomalaya.The Crypteroniaceae are native to tropical lowland and submontane rain forests. The genus Axinandra includes four species, one in Sri Lanka and the others in Borneo and...

       A.DC.
    • Lythraceae
      Lythraceae
      Lythraceae are a family of flowering plants. It includes about 620 species of mostly herbs, with some shrubs and trees, in 31 genera. Major genera include Cuphea , Lagerstroemia , Nesaea , Rotala , and Lythrum...

       J.St.-Hil.
    • $Melastomataceae
      Melastomataceae
      right|thumb|200px|Characteristic venation of many melastomesThe family Melastomataceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants found mostly in the tropics comprising some 200 genera and 4500 species...

       Juss. (including Memecylaceae
      Memecylaceae
      Memecylaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 430 species of trees and shrubs in seven genera. Memecylaceae are widespread in the tropics....

       DC.)
    • §Myrtaceae
      Myrtaceae
      The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. Myrtle, clove, guava, feijoa, allspice, and eucalyptus belong here. All species are woody, with essential oils, and flower parts in multiples of four or five...

       Juss. (including Heteropyxidaceae Engl. & Gilg, Psiloxylaceae Croizat)
    • Onagraceae
      Onagraceae
      Onagraceae, also known as the Willowherb family or Evening Primrose family, are a family of flowering plants. The family includes about 640-650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 20-24 genera...

       Juss.
    • §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 genera....

       Sweet ex Guill. (including Oliniaceae Arn., Rhynchocalycaceae L.A.S.Johnson & B.G.Briggs)
    • Vochysiaceae
      Vochysiaceae
      Vochysiaceae is a plant family belonging to the order of Myrtales.-Description:Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves; flowers are zygomorph 1--5 merous; ovary inferior or superior; one fertile stamen; fruits samara or capsules-Biogeography:...

       A.St.-Hil.
  • Crossosomatales
    Crossosomatales
    The Crossosomatales are an order, newly recognized by the AGP II, of flowering plants, included within the Rosids, which are part of the eudicots...

     Takht. ex Reveal
    • *Aphloiaceae
      Aphloiaceae
      Aphloiaceae Takht. 1985, is a monogeneric family of flowering plants. It contains only one species Aphloia theiformis Benn., a species of evergreen shrubs or small trees occurring in East Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands and the Seychelles....

       Takht.
    • Crossosomataceae
      Crossosomataceae
      Crossosomataceae is a small plant family, consisting of three genera of shrubs found only in the dry parts of the American southwest and Mexico.-External links:...

       Engl.
    • *Geissolomataceae
      Geissolomataceae
      The Geissolomataceae is a monotypic family of flowering plants native to the Cape Province of South Africa. The plants are xerophytic evergreen shrubs and are known to accumulate aluminum....

       A.DC.
    • *Guamatelaceae S.Oh & D.Potter
    • Stachyuraceae
      Stachyuraceae
      Stachyuraceae is a flowering plant family of shrubs and small trees native to East and Southeast Asia. The plants have leaves with serrate margins and flowers in long, hanging racemes.- References :* in Stevens, P. F. ....

       J.Agardh
    • Staphyleaceae
      Staphyleaceae
      Staphyleaceae is a small family of five genera of flowering plants in the order Crossosomatales, native to the Northern Hemisphere and also in South America. The genus Staphylea, which gives the family its name, contains the "bladdernut" trees.Genera...

       Martinov
    • *§Strasburgeriaceae Soler. (including Ixerbaceae Griseb. ex Doweld & Reveal)
  • †Picramniales Doweld
    • *Picramniaceae
      Picramniaceae
      The Picramniales are a small, mainly neotropical order of plants containing one family, the Picramniaceae, and three genera Alvaradoa, Nothotalisia and Picramnia. Members of the order were formerly placed in the family Simaroubaceae or misidentified as species in the family Sapindaceae, in the...

       Fernando & Quinn
  • Huerteales
    Huerteales
    Huerteales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It is one of the 17 orders that make up the large eudicot group known as the rosids in the APG III system of plant classification. Within the rosids, it is one of the orders in Malvidae, a group formerly known as eurosids II and...

     Doweld
    • *Dipentodontaceae
      Dipentodontaceae
      Dipentodon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dipentodontaceae. Its only species, Dipentodon sinicus, is a small, deciduous tree native to southern China, Burma, and northern India. It has been little studied and until recently its affinities remained obscure.- Description :Dipentodon...

       Merr.
    • *Gerrardinaceae Alford
    • Tapisciaceae
      Tapisciaceae
      Tapisciaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Until recently it had been abandoned by taxonomists, and it was not recognised in the APG II system of 2003. Recently, however, it has been reinstated to encompass the two small genera Tapiscia and Huertea....

       Takht.
  • Brassicales
    Brassicales
    The Brassicales are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system. One character common to many members of the order is the production of glucosinolate compounds...

     Bromhead
    • $Akaniaceae
      Akaniaceae
      Akaniaceae is a family of flowering plants in order Brassicales. It comprises two monotypic genera, Akania and Bretschneidera....

       Stapf (including Bretschneideraceae Engl. & Gilg)
    • Bataceae Mart. ex Perleb
    • §Brassicaceae
      Brassicaceae
      Brassicaceae, a medium sized and economically important family of flowering plants , are informally known as the mustards, mustard flowers, the crucifers or the cabbage family....

       Burnett
    • *Capparaceae
      Capparaceae
      Capparaceae , commonly known as the Caper family, is a family of plants in order Brassicales. As currently circumscribed, it contains 33 genera and about 700 species...

       Juss.
    • Caricaceae
      Caricaceae
      Caricaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, native to tropical regions of Central and South America and Africa. They are short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small trees growing to 5-10 m tall...

       Dumort.
    • *Cleomaceae
      Cleomaceae
      Cleomaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Brassicales, comprising about 300 species in 10 genera. These genera were previously included in the family Capparaceae, but were raised to a distinct family when DNA evidence showed that the genera included in it are more closely...

       Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Emblingiaceae J.Agardh
    • Gyrostemonaceae
      Gyrostemonaceae
      Gyrostemonaceae is a family of plants in order Brassicales. It comprises 6 genera, totalling about 18 species. All are endemic to temperate parts of Australia. They are shrubs or small trees with small, often narrow leaves, and small flowers. They are wind-pollinated....

       A.Juss.
    • Koeberliniaceae
      Koeberliniaceae
      Koeberlinia spinosa is a species of flowering plant native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico known by several common names, including Crown of Thorns, Allthorn, and Crucifixion Thorn. It is the sole species of the monotypic genus Koeberlinia, which is sometimes considered to be...

       Engl.
    • Limnanthaceae
      Limnanthaceae
      Limnanthaceae are a small family of annual herbs occurring throughout temperate North America. There are eight species and nineteen taxa currently recognized. Members of this family are prominent in vernal pool communities of California. Some taxa have been domesticated for use as an oil seed crop...

       R.Br.
    • Moringaceae Martinov
    • Pentadiplandraceae Hutch. & Dalziel
    • Resedaceae
      Resedaceae
      Resedaceae is a family of generally herbaceous dicotyledonous plants comprising some 70 species in six genera:*Caylusea*Ochradenus*Oligomeris*Randonia*Reseda*Sesamoides...

       Martinov
    • Salvadoraceae
      Salvadoraceae
      Salvadoraceae is a family in the plant order Brassicales, comprising 3 genera totalling around 12 species. They occur in Africa, including Madagascar; South East Asia; and have also been found on Java, suggesting they are probably found in much of Malesia...

       Lindl.
    • Setchellanthaceae Iltis
    • Tovariaceae Pax
    • Tropaeolaceae Juss. ex DC.
  • Malvales
    Malvales
    Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, it includes about 6000 species within nine families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots....

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • $Bixaceae
      Bixaceae
      Bixaceae, or the achiote family, is a family of dicotyledonous plants. Under the Cronquist system, it was traditionally placed in the order Violales...

       Kunth (including Cochlospermaceae
      Cochlospermaceae
      Cochlospermaceae is a family of two genera and 20-25 species of trees and shrubs. They occur widely throughout the tropical regions of the world, but are curiously absent from Malaysia. Most species in this family are mesophytic or xerophytic, growing primarily in drier climates.Some authorities...

       Planch., Diegodendraceae Capuron)
    • Cistaceae
      Cistaceae
      The Cistaceae is a small family of plants known for its beautiful shrubs, which are profusely covered by flowers at the time of blossom...

       Juss.
    • *Cytinaceae
      Cytinaceae
      Cytinaceae is a family of parasitic flowering plant. It comprised two genera, Cytinus and Bdallophytum, totalling ten species.These two genera were formerly placed in family Rafflesiaceae, order Malpighiales. When they were first split out into a separate family, it was placed in Malpighiales, but...

       A.Rich.
    • Dipterocarpaceae
      Dipterocarpaceae
      Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 17 genera and approximately 500 species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus Dipterocarpus, is derived from Greek and refers to the two-winged fruit...

       Blume
    • Malvaceae
      Malvaceae
      Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

       Juss.
    • Muntingiaceae
      Muntingiaceae
      Muntingiaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the rosid order Malvales. It is a small family which consists of three monotypic genera: Dicraspidia, Muntingia and Neotessmannia. They are woody plants of the tropical regions of America. The older Cronquist System places these genera in...

       C.Bayer, M.W.Chase & M.F.Fay
    • Neuradaceae
      Neuradaceae
      Neuradaceae is a family of flowering plant. It comprised three genera — Grielum, Neurada and Neuradopsis — totalling ten species....

       Kostel.
    • Sarcolaenaceae
      Sarcolaenaceae
      The Sarcolaenaceae are a family of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar. The family includes 40 species of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs in ten genera....

       Caruel
    • Sphaerosepalaceae
      Sphaerosepalaceae
      Sphaerosepalaceae is a family of flowering plants. It contains 14 species of trees and shrubs in two genera, Dialyceras and Rhopalocarpus, all of which are endemic to Madagascar. The family is alternatively known as the Rhopalocarpaceae....

       Tiegh. ex Bullock
    • Thymelaeaceae
      Thymelaeaceae
      Thymelaeaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants composed of 50 genera and 898 species. It was established in 1789 by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu.Thymelaeaceae is in the order Malvales...

       Juss.
  • Sapindales
    Sapindales
    Sapindales is a botanical name for 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....

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Anacardiaceae
      Anacardiaceae
      Anacardiaceae are a family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes and in some cases producing urushiol, an irritant. Anacardiaceae include numerous genera with several of economic importance. Notable plants in this family include cashew , mango, poison ivy, sumac, smoke tree, and marula...

       R.Br.
    • Biebersteiniaceae Schnizl.
    • Burseraceae
      Burseraceae
      Burseraceae is a moderate-sized family of 17-18 genera and about 540 species of flowering plants. The actual numbers differ according to the time period in which a given source is written describing this family. The Burseraceae is also known as the Torchwood family, the frankincense and myrrh...

       Kunth
    • Kirkiaceae
      Kirkiaceae
      Kirkiaceae is a family of flowering plant in the order Sapindales. It comprises two genera, Kirkia and Pleikirkia, totalling six species...

       Takht.
    • Meliaceae
      Meliaceae
      The Meliaceae, or the Mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs in the order Sapindales....

       Juss.
    • $Nitrariaceae
      Nitrariaceae
      Nitrariaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. It comprises three genera, Nitraria, Peganum and Tetradiclis, totalling 16 species....

       Lindl. (including Peganaceae Tiegh. ex Takht., Tetradiclidaceae Takht.)
    • Rutaceae
      Rutaceae
      Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of flowering plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales.Species of the family generally have flowers that divide into four or five parts, usually with strong scents...

       Juss.
    • Sapindaceae
      Sapindaceae
      Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. There are about 140-150 genera with 1400-2000 species, including maple, horse chestnut and lychee....

       Juss.
    • Simaroubaceae
      Simaroubaceae
      The Simaroubaceae is a small, mostly tropical, family in the order Sapindales. In recent decades it has been subject to much taxonomic debate, with several small families being split off...

       DC.

Asterids
Asterids
In the APG II system for the classification of flowering plants, the name asterids refers to a clade .Most of the taxa belonging to this clade had been referred to the Asteridae in the Cronquist system and to the Sympetalae in earlier systems...

 

  • Cornales
    Cornales
    Cornales is an order of flowering plants, basal among the asterids, containing about 600 species. Plants within Cornales usually have four-parted flowers, drupaceous fruits, and inferior gynoecia topped with disc-shaped nectaries...

     Link.
    • Cornaceae
      Cornaceae
      Cornaceae is a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. It contains approximately 110 species, mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen. Members of this family usually have opposite or alternate simple leaves, four- or five-parted flowers clustered in...

       Bercht. & J.Presl (including Nyssaceae
      Nyssaceae
      Nyssaceae is a small family of flowering trees closely related to and often included within the dogwood family . Nyssaceae commonly includes the following genera:...

       Juss. ex Dumort.)
    • Curtisiaceae Takht.
    • Grubbiaceae
      Grubbiaceae
      Grubbiaceae is a family of flowering plants endemic to the Cape floristic region of South Africa. The family includes five species of leathery-leaved shrubs in two genera, Grubbia and Strobilocarpus. They are commonly known as sillyberry....

       Endl. ex Meisn.
    • Hydrangeaceae
      Hydrangeaceae
      Hydrangeaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Cornales, with a wide distribution in Asia and North America, and locally in southeastern Europe.-Overview:...

       Dumort.
    • Hydrostachyaceae Engl.
    • Loasaceae
      Loasaceae
      The 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. The family comprises annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants, and a few shrubs and small trees.Genera...

       Juss.
  • Ericales
    Ericales
    The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons, including for example tea, persimmon, blueberry, Brazil nut, and azalea. The order includes trees and bushes, lianas and herbaceous plants. Together with ordinary autophytic plants, the Ericales include chlorophyll-deficient...

     Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Actinidiaceae
      Actinidiaceae
      Actinidiaceae, or the Chinese Gooseberry family, is a small family of plants. It includes three genera and about 360 species. It is a member of the order Ericales.-Distribution:...

       Engl. & Gilg.
    • Balsaminaceae
      Balsaminaceae
      Balsaminaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants, comprising two genera and 850+ species, all but one of which belong to the genus Impatiens...

       A.Rich.
    • Clethraceae
      Clethraceae
      Clethraceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Asia and the Americas, with one species also on Madeira...

       Klotzsch
    • Cyrillaceae
      Cyrillaceae
      Cyrillaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas. The family comprises two genera, each with a single species, Cyrilla racemiflora and Cliftonia monophylla....

       Lindl.
    • Diapensiaceae
      Diapensiaceae
      Diapensiaceae is a small family of flowering plants, comprising 12 species in five genera. Three of the genera, Berneuxia, Galax, and Pyxidanthera, contain only a single species. The Asian species of Shortia were formerly separated as the genus Schizocodon, and some authors still recognize S....

       Lindl.
    • Ebenaceae
      Ebenaceae
      The Ebenaceae are a family of flowering plants, which includes ebony and persimmon. The family has approximately 500 species of trees and shrubs in two genera, Diospyros and Euclea. The species are mostly evergreen and native to the tropics and subtropics, with a few deciduous species native to...

       Gürke
    • Ericaceae
      Ericaceae
      The Ericaceae, commonly known as the heath or heather family, is a group of mostly calcifuge flowering plants. The family is large, with roughly 4000 species spread across 126 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants...

       Juss.
    • Fouquieriaceae DC.
    • Lecythidaceae
      Lecythidaceae
      The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants native to tropical South America and Madagascar.According to the most recent molecular analysis of Lecythidaceae The Lecythidaceae comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250-300 species of woody plants...

       A.Rich.
    • Marcgraviaceae
      Marcgraviaceae
      Marcgraviaceae is a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales.The members of the family are shrubs, woody epiphytes and lianas with alternate, pinnately-nerved leaves. The flowers are arranged in racemes. The flowers are accompanied by modified, fleshy saccate bracts which produce nectar....

       Bercht. & J.Presl
    • *Mitrastemonaceae Makino
    • $Pentaphylacaceae
      Pentaphylacaceae
      Pentaphylax is a genus of flowering plants, with one or two species which are shrubs and small trees. The species has simple evergreen leaves that are alternately arranged on the stems...

       Engl. (including Ternstroemiaceae Mirb. ex DC.)
    • Polemoniaceae
      Polemoniaceae
      Polemoniaceae are a family of about 25 genera with 270-400 species of annual and perennial plants, native to the Northern Hemisphere and South America, with the center of diversity in western North America, especially in California.Only one genus is found in Europe, and two in Asia, where they...

       Juss.
    • §Primulaceae
      Primulaceae
      Primulaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 24 genera, including some favorite garden plants and wildflowers. It is also known as the primrose family.- Genera :...

       Batsch ex Borkh. (including Maesaceae Anderb., B.Ståhl & Källersjö, Myrsinaceae
      Myrsinaceae
      Myrsinaceae, or the Myrsine family, is a rather large family from the order Ericales. It consists of 35 genera and about 1000 species....

       R.Br., Theophrastaceae
      Theophrastaceae
      Theophrastaceae is a small family of flowering plants. As currently circumscribed, the family consists of seven genera and 95 species of trees or shrubs, native to tropical regions of the Americas....

       G.Don)
    • Roridulaceae Martinov
    • Sapotaceae
      Sapotaceae
      Sapotaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Ericales. The family includes approximately 800 species of evergreen trees and shrubs in approximately 65 genera . Distribution is pantropical....

       Juss.
    • Sarraceniaceae
      Sarraceniaceae
      Sarraceniaceae is a family of pitcher plants , belonging to order Ericales .The family comprises three extant genera: Sarracenia , Darlingtonia , and Heliamphora . The extinct Archaeamphora longicervia may also belong to this family...

       Dumort.
    • $$Sladeniaceae
      Sladeniaceae
      Sladeniaceae Airy Shaw is a family of flowering plants containing tree species found in sub-tropical to tropical environments in East Africa , Burma, Yunnan and Thailand...

       Airy Shaw
    • Styracaceae
      Styracaceae
      Styracaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing 11 genera and about 160 species of trees and shrubs. The family occurs in warm temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere....

       DC. & Spreng.
    • Symplocaceae
      Symplocaceae
      Symplocos is a genus of flowering plants in the order Ericales, containing about 250 species native to Asia, Australia and the Americas.Symplocos species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Engrailed....

       Desf.
    • $Tetrameristaceae
      Tetrameristaceae
      Tetrameristaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. The family consists of four species, of trees or shrubs, in two genera:* Tetramerista in Southeast Asia* Pentamerista in the Guyanas....

       Hutch. (including Pellicieraceae L.Beauvis.)
    • Theaceae
      Theaceae
      The Theaceae is a family of flowering plants, composed of shrubs and trees. Some botanists include the family Ternstroemiaceae within the Theaceae while others do not...

       Mirb. ex Ker Gawl.

Euasterids I 

  • §*Boraginaceae
    Boraginaceae
    Boraginaceae, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, include a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2,000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.A number of familiar plants belong to this family....

     Juss. (including Hoplestigmataceae Gilg)
  • Vahliaceae Dandy
  • Icacinaceae
    Icacinaceae
    Icacinaceae is a family of flowering plants.It consists of trees, shrubs, and lianas, primarily of the tropics.The family was traditionally circumscribed quite broadly, with around 55 genera totalling over 400 species...

     Miers
  • Metteniusaceae H.Karst. ex Schnizl.
  • Oncothecaceae Kobuski ex Airy Shaw
  • Garryales
    Garryales
    The Garryales are a small order of dicotyledons, including only two families and three genera:* Family Garryaceae**Garrya**Aucuba* Family Eucommiaceae**Eucommia...

     Lindl.
    • Eucommiaceae Engl.
    • $Garryaceae
      Garryaceae
      Garryaceae is a small family of dicotyledons, including only two genera:*Garrya Douglas ex Lindl., 1834. About 16-18 species.*Aucuba Thunb., 1783. About 3-10 species....

       Lindl. (including Aucubaceae Bercht. & J.Presl)
  • Gentianales
    Gentianales
    Gentianales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.The circumscription of Gentiales in the Cronquist system included a broadly defined Loganiaceae , Retziaceae, Gentianaceae, Saccifoliaceae, Apocynaceae, and Asclepiadaceae...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Apocynaceae
      Apocynaceae
      The Apocynaceae or dogbane family is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, and lianas.Many species are tall trees found in tropical rainforests, and most are from the tropics and subtropics, but some grow in tropical dry, xeric environments. There are also perennial herbs...

       Juss.
    • Gelsemiaceae
      Gelsemiaceae
      Gelsemiaceae is a family of flowering plants, belonging to order Gentianales. The family contains only two genera: Gelsemium and Mostuea. Gelsemium has three species, one native to Southeast Asia and southern China and two native to Southeastern United States, Mexico and Central America...

       Struwe & V.A.Albert
    • Gentianaceae
      Gentianaceae
      Gentianaceae are a family of flowering plants of 87 genera and over 1500 species. Flowers are actinomorphic and bisexual with fused sepals and petals. The stamens are attached to the inside of the petals and alternate with the corolla lobes. There is a glandular disk at the base of the gynoecium,...

       Juss.
    • Loganiaceae
      Loganiaceae
      Loganiaceae are a family of flowering plants classified in order Gentianales. The family includes 13 genera, distributed around the world's tropics.Earlier treatments of the family have included up to 29 genera...

       R.Br. ex Mart.
    • Rubiaceae
      Rubiaceae
      The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

       Juss.
  • Lamiales
    Lamiales
    Lamiales is an order in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes approximately 11,000 species divided into about 20 families...

     Bromhead
    • §Acanthaceae
      Acanthaceae
      The family Acanthaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species....

       Juss.
    • Bignoniaceae
      Bignoniaceae
      The Bignoniaceae, or Trumpet Creeper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprising about 650-750 species in 116-120 genera. Members of the family are mostly trees and lianas , shrubs and more rarely herbaceous plants. As climber plants, they are twine climbers or tendril climbers, and rarely...

       Juss.
    • Byblidaceae Domin
    • Calceolariaceae
      Calceolariaceae
      Calceolariaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales that has been recently segregated from Scrophulariaceae. The family includes three genera, Calceolaria, Porodittia, and Jovellana...

       Olmstead
    • Carlemanniaceae
      Carlemanniaceae
      The Carlemanniaceae are a tropical East Asian and Southeast Asian family of subshrub to herbaceous perennial flowering plants with 2 genera. Older systems of plant taxonomy place the two genera, Carlemannia, and Silvianthus within the Caprifoliaceae or the Rubiaceae...

       Airy Shaw
    • Gesneriaceae
      Gesneriaceae
      Gesneriaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of ca. 150 genera and ca. 3,200 species in the Old World and New World tropics and subtropics, with a very small number extending to temperate areas. Many species have colorful and showy flowers and are cultivated as ornamental plants.Most...

       Rich. & Juss.
    • Lamiaceae
      Lamiaceae
      The mints, taxonomically known as Lamiaceae or Labiatae, are a family of flowering plants. They have traditionally been considered closely related to Verbenaceae, but in the 1990s, phylogenetic studies suggested that many genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae...

       Martinov
    • *Linderniaceae
      Linderniaceae
      The Linderniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales, which consists of about 13 genera and 195 species from worldwide, mainly in neotropics....

       Borsch, K.Müll., & Eb.Fisch.
    • Lentibulariaceae
      Lentibulariaceae
      Lentibulariaceae is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts....

       Rich.
    • Martyniaceae
      Martyniaceae
      Martyniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the Lamiales order that are restricted to the New World. The family was included in Pedaliaceae in the Cronquist system but is recognized as a separate family by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group on the basis of phylogenetic studies that show that the...

       Horan.
    • Oleaceae
      Oleaceae
      Oleaceae are a family containing 24 extant genera and around 600 species of mesophytic shrubs, trees and occasionally vines. As shrubs, members of this family may be twine climbers, or scramblers.-Leaves:...

       Hoffmanns. & Link
    • Orobanchaceae
      Orobanchaceae
      Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family, is a family of flowering plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera were formerly included in the family Scrophulariaceae sensu lato...

       Vent.
    • Paulowniaceae Nakai
    • Pedaliaceae
      Pedaliaceae
      Pedaliaceae is a flowering plant family classified in the order Scrophulariales in the Cronquist system and Lamiales in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system...

       R.Br.
    • Phrymaceae
      Phrymaceae
      Phrymaceae , also known as the Lopseed family, is a small plant family in the order Lamiales. It now consists of about 190 species, distributed worldwide but with the majority in western North America and Australia .Previously, this family was monotypic with the genus Phryma, and limited in...

       Schauer
    • §Plantaginaceae
      Plantaginaceae
      Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago L..In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but numerous phylogenetic studies, summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have...

       Juss.
    • Plocospermataceae Hutch.
    • Schlegeliaceae
      Schlegeliaceae
      Schlegeliaceae is a family of plants native to tropical America. This family is sometimes included in Scrophulariaceae....

       Reveal
    • Scrophulariaceae
      Scrophulariaceae
      Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family, are a family of flowering plants. The plants are annual or perennial herbs with flowers with bilateral or rarely radial symmetry. Members of the Scrophulariaceae have a cosmopolitan distribution, with the majority found in temperate areas, including...

       Juss.
    • Stilbaceae
      Stilbaceae
      Stilbaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales.Genera include:*Anastrabe E. Mey. ex Benth.*Bowkeria Harv.*Campylostachys Kunth*Charadrophila Marloth*Euthystachys A. DC.*Halleria L.*Ixianthes Benth....

       Kunth
    • Tetrachondraceae Wettst.
    • *Thomandersiaceae Sreem.
    • Verbenaceae
      Verbenaceae
      Verbenaceae, commonly known as the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell.Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that...

       J.St.-Hil.
  • Solanales
    Solanales
    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....

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Convolvulaceae
      Convolvulaceae
      Convolvulaceae, known commonly as the bindweed or morning glory family, are a group of about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species of mostly herbaceous vines, but also trees, shrubs and herbs.- Description :...

       Juss.
    • Hydroleaceae R.Br. ex Edwards
    • Montiniaceae
      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 classification systems...

       Nakai
    • Solanaceae
      Solanaceae
      Solanaceae are a family of flowering plants that include a number of important agricultural crops as well as many toxic plants. The name of the family comes from the Latin Solanum "the nightshade plant", but the further etymology of that word is unclear...

       Juss.
    • Sphenocleaceae T.Baskerv.

Euasterids II 

  • Aquifoliales
    Aquifoliales
    The Aquifoliales are an order of flowering plants, including most notably the Aquifoliaceae, or holly family, and also the Helwingiaceae and the Phyllonomaceae . In 2001, the families Stemonuraceae and Cardiopteridaceae were added to this order...

     Senft
    • Aquifoliaceae Bercht. & J.Presl
    • §Cardiopteridaceae
      Cardiopteridaceae
      Cardiopteridaceae is a eudicot family of flowering plants. It consists of about 43 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines, mostly of the tropics, but with a few in temperate regions. It contains six genera, the largest of which is Citronella, with 21 species. The other genera are much smaller...

       Blume (including Leptaulaceae Tiegh.)
    • Helwingiaceae Decne.
    • Phyllonomaceae
      Phyllonomaceae
      The family Phyllonomaceae is a family of dicotyledons, consisting of 4 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Phyllonoma. They are native to Central America ....

       Small
    • Stemonuraceae Kårehed
  • Asterales
    Asterales
    Asterales is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the composite family and its related families.The order is a cosmopolite, and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees and shrubs are also present.The Asterales can be characterized on the...

     Link
    • Alseuosmiaceae
      Alseuosmiaceae
      Alseuosmiaceae is a plant family of the order Asterales, found in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand.They are shrubs with simple, alternate leaves, spiral or whorled, with entire or dentate margins. The solitary flowers are terminal or axillary, or aggregated in fascicles and rarely in...

       Airy Shaw
    • Argophyllaceae
      Argophyllaceae
      The Argophyllaceae is a family of shrubs or small trees belonging to the order Asterales. The family includes two genera Argophyllum and Corokia. Members of the family are native to eastern Australia, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, and Rapa Iti....

       Takht.
    • Asteraceae
      Asteraceae
      The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

       Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Calyceraceae
      Calyceraceae
      Calyceraceae is a plant family in the order Asterales.The members of the family have simple, alternate leaves and flowers arranged in heads. The flowers have 5 fused petals.Selected genera:*Acarpha*Acicarpha*Boopis*Calycera...

       R.Br. ex Rich.
    • $Campanulaceae
      Campanulaceae
      The family Campanulaceae , of the order Asterales, contains about 2000 species in 70 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky non-toxic sap...

       Juss. (including Lobeliaceae
      Lobeliaceae
      Lobelioideae is a subfamily of the plant family Campanulaceae. It contains 32 genera, totalling about 1200 species. Some of the larger genera are Lobelia, Siphocampylus, Centropogon, Burmeistera and Cyanea....

       Juss.)
    • Goodeniaceae
      Goodeniaceae
      Goodeniaceae are a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales. It contains about 404 species in twelve genera. The family is distributed mostly in Australia, except for the genus Scaevola, which is pantropical...

       R.Br.
    • Menyanthaceae
      Menyanthaceae
      Menyanthaceae are a family of aquatic and wetland plants in the order Asterales. There are approximately 60-70 species in five genera distributed worldwide. The simple or compound leaves arise alternately from a creeping rhizome. In the submersed aquatic genus Nymphoides, leaves are floating and...

       Dumort.
    • Pentaphragmataceae J.Agardh
    • Phellinaceae Takht.
    • Rousseaceae
      Rousseaceae
      Rousseaceae is a plant family in the order Asterales containing trees and shrubs. The fruit is a berry or capsule. Leaves are simple, with toothed margins. Leaf stipules are not seen in this group....

       DC.
    • $Stylidiaceae
      Stylidiaceae
      The family Stylidiaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It consists of five genera with over 240 species, most of which are endemic to Australia and New Zealand. Members of Stylidiaceae are typically grass-like herbs or small shrubs and can be perennials or annuals...

       R.Br. (including Donatiaceae B.Chandler)
  • †Escalloniales R.Br.
    • §Escalloniaceae
      Escalloniaceae
      The Escalloniaceae is a family of flowering plants comprising about 130 species in seven genera. In the APG II system it is one of eight families in the euasterids II clade that are unplaced as to order...

       R.Br. ex Dumort. (including Eremosynaceae Dandy, Polyosmaceae Blume, Tribelaceae Airy Shaw)
  • Bruniales
    Bruniales
    Bruniales is a valid botanic name at the rank of order. Until recently it was not in use, but a 2008 study suggested that Bruniaceae and Columelliaceae are sister clades...

     Dumort.
    • Bruniaceae
      Bruniaceae
      Bruniaceae is a family of shrubs native to the cape region of South Africa. They are mostly restricted to the Cape Province, but a small number of species occur in KwaZulu-Natal....

       R.Br. ex DC.
    • §Columelliaceae
      Columelliaceae
      Columelliaceae is a family of trees and shrubs native to the Andes of South America.In the APG II taxonomy they are placed in the order Lamiales, but a 2008 study suggested that they are sister to the Bruniaceae, and the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website proposes incorporating this finding by placing...

       D.Don (including Desfontainiaceae Endl.)
  • †Paracryphiales Takht. ex Reveal
    • §Paracryphiaceae
      Paracryphiaceae
      Paracryphiaceae is a family of woody shrubs and trees native to Australia, south-east Asia, and New Caledonia. Under the APG II system, this family contains two genera: the monotypic Paracryphia, endemic to New Caledonia; and Quintinia, with 25 species in the Philippines, New Guinea, the east coast...

       Airy Shaw (including *Quintiniaceae Doweld, Sphenostemonaceae P.Royen & Airy Shaw)
  • Dipsacales
    Dipsacales
    The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.Under the Cronquist system, the order included Adoxaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacaceae, and Valerianaceae. Under the more recent Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system, the circumscription of the order is...

     Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl
    • Adoxaceae
      Adoxaceae
      The Adoxaceae is a small family of flowering plants in the order Dipsacales, as now constituted comprising four genera and about 150-200 species. It is characterised by opposite toothed leaves, small five- or, more rarely, four-petalled flowers in cymose inflorescences, and the fruit being a drupe...

       E.Mey.
    • §Caprifoliaceae
      Caprifoliaceae
      The Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family is a clade consisting of about 800 dicotyledonous flowering plants, with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution; centres of diversity are found in eastern North America and eastern Asia, while they are absent in tropical and southern Africa.They are mostly...

       Juss. (including Diervillaceae Pyck, Dipsacaceae
      Dipsacaceae
      The Dipsacaceae, or teasel family, of the order Dipsacales contains 350 species of perennial or biennial herbs and shrubs in eleven genera. Native to most temperate climates, they are found in Europe, Asia and Africa...

       Juss., Linnaeaceae Backlund, Morinaceae
      Morinaceae
      Morinaceae is a family of plants in the order Dipsacales. The Genus Morina has also been included in family Dipsacaceae. Currently three genera are listed in this family:* Acanthocalyx* Cryptothladia* Morina-References:...

       Raf., Valerianaceae
      Valerianaceae
      The Valerianaceae, or valerian family, of the order Dipsacales contains about 350 species in 7 genera. Plants are generally herbaceous and foliage often has a strong, disagreeable odor. They are found native in most regions of the world except for Australia...

       Batsch)
  • Apiales
    Apiales
    The Apiales are an order of flowering plants. The families given at right 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 be divided...

     Nakai
    • Apiaceae
      Apiaceae
      The Apiaceae , commonly known as carrot or parsley family, is a group of mostly aromatic plants with hollow stems. The family is large, with more than 3,700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants...

       Lindl.
    • Araliaceae
      Araliaceae
      Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies...

       Juss.
    • Griseliniaceae J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. ex A.Cunn.
    • Myodocarpaceae
      Myodocarpaceae
      Myodocarpaceae is a family of plants including two genera. The family is accepted under the APG II system, but in some other systems is traditionally included among the Araliaceae....

       Doweld
    • Pennantiaceae J.Agardh
    • Pittosporaceae
      Pittosporaceae
      Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes approximately 200 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9-10 genera. The species of Pittosporaceae range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Oceania, and Australasia ecozones.-Genera:* Auranticarpa...

       R.Br.
    • §Torricelliaceae
      Torricelliaceae
      Torricelliaceae is a family of trees native to Madagascar and south-west Asia. It contains three genera, Aralidium, Melanophylla and Torricellia...

       Hu (including Aralidiaceae Philipson & B.C.Stone, Melanophyllaceae Takht. ex Airy Shaw)

Taxa of uncertain position

  • Apodanthaceae
    Apodanthaceae
    The family Apodanthaceae comprises 22 to 30 species of endoparasitic herbs. They live in branches or roots of their host , emerging only to flower. The only leaves present are several bracts at the base of each flower. The plants do not carry out any photosynthesis...

     Takht. (three genera)
  • Cynomoriaceae Endl. ex Lindl.
  • Gumillea Ruiz & Pav.
  • Petenaea
    Petenaea
    Petenaea cordata was first described in Elaeocarpaceae and later placed in Tiliaceae, but most authors have been uncertain about its familial affinities. It was considered a taxon incertae sedis in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification...

    Lundell (probably in Malvales
    Malvales
    Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, it includes about 6000 species within nine families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots....

    )
  • Nicobariodendron (see Simmons, 2004; probably in Celastraceae
    Celastraceae
    The Celastraceae , is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales...

    ).

Phylogeny

The APG III system was based on a phylogenetic tree
Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities based upon similarities and differences in their physical and/or genetic characteristics...

 for the angiosperms which included all of the 59 orders and 4 of the unplaced families. The systematic
Systematics
Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of terrestrial life, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees...

 positions
Plant taxonomy
Plant taxonomy is the science that finds, describes, classifies, identifies, and names plants. It thus is one of the main branches of taxonomy.Plant taxonomy is closely allied to plant systematics, and there is no sharp boundary between the two...

 of the other 6 unplaced families was so uncertain that they could not be placed in any of the polytomies
Polytomy
A polytomy , meaning many temporal based branches, is a section of a phylogeny in which the evolutionary relationships can not be fully resolved to dichotomies. In a phylogenetic tree, a polytomy is represented as a node which has more than two immediate descending branches...

 in the tree. They are shown in the classification table entitled "Detailed version" above.

The phylogenetic tree shown below was published with the APG III system, but without some of the labels that are added here.

Campanulids (continued)

Subfamilies replacing discontinued families

A number of subfamilies have been proposed to replace some of the families which were optional (i.e. bracketed) in APG II, but have been discontinued in APG III. These are shown in the table below.
Subfamilies replacing APG II bracketed families
APG II bracketed family APG III family: subfamily
Agapanthaceae Amaryllidaceae: Agapanthoideae
Agavaceae Asparagaceae: Agavoideae
Alliaceae Amaryllidaceae: Allioideae
Amaryllidaceae Amaryllidaceae: Amaryllidoideae
Aphyllanthaceae Asparagaceae: Aphyllanthoideae
Asparagaceae Asparagaceae: Asparagoideae
Asphodelaceae Xanthorrhoeaceae: Asphodeloideae
Hemerocallidaceae Xanthorrhoeaceae: Hemerocallidoideae
Hesperocallidaceae Asparagaceae: Agavoideae
Hyacinthaceae Asparagaceae: Scilloideae
Laxmanniaceae Asparagaceae: Lomandroideae
Ruscaceae Asparagaceae: Nolinoideae
Themidaceae Asparagaceae: Brodiaeoideae
Xanthorrhoeaceae Xanthorrhoeaceae: Xanthorrhoeoideae

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