Order

Malpighiales (Nances, willows, and allies)

Viola purpurea purpurea. Photo: (c) Barbara Kossy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 16,000 species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsettia, and coca plant, and are hard to recognize except with molecular phylogenetic evidence. It is not part of any of the classification systems based only on plant morphology. Molecular clock calculations estimate the origin of stem group Malpighiales at around 100 million…

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Subtaxa

Family: Linaceae (Flax family)

Family: Hypericaceae (St. john’s wort family)

Family: Salicaceae (Willow family)

Family: Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)

Family: Violaceae (Violet family)

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