Order

Gentianales (Gentians, dogbanes, madders, and allies)

Frasera speciosa. Photo: (c) Marshal Hedin, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Gentianales is an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid clade of eudicots. It comprises more than 16,000 species in about 1,138 genera in 5 families. More than 80% of the species in this order belong to the Rubiaceae family.

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Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
  - Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
    - Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
      - Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
        Order: Gentianales (Gentians, dogbanes, madders, and allies)
        Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family) (7)
        Family: Rubiaceae (Madder family) (5)
        Family: Apocynaceae (Dogbane family) (8)

Subtaxa

Family: Gentianaceae (Gentian family)

Family: Rubiaceae (Madder family)

Family: Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)

Where in Humboldt

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