Order

Rosales (Roses, elms, figs, and allies)

Rosa woodsii. Photo: (c) Don Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Rosales is an order of flowering plants. It is sister to a clade consisting of Fagales and Cucurbitales. It contains about 7700 species, distributed into about 260 genera. Rosales comprise nine families, the type family being the rose family, Rosaceae. The largest of these families are Rosaceae (90/2500) and Urticaceae (54/2600). The order Rosales is divided into three clades that have never been assigned a taxonomic rank. The basal clade consists of the family Rosaceae; another…

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
  - Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
    - Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
      - Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
        Order: Rosales (Roses, elms, figs, and allies)
        Family: Urticaceae (Nettle family) (2)
        Family: Rhamnaceae (Buckthorn family) (16)
        Family: Rosaceae (Rose family) (42)

Subtaxa

Family: Urticaceae (Nettle family)

Family: Rhamnaceae (Buckthorn family)

Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)

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