Overview
Dilleniales is an order of flowering plants. The Cronquist system, of 1981, recognized such order and placed it in subclass Dilleniidae. It used the following :
- order Dilleniales
The APG II system, of 2003, assigns the first of these families to the core eudicots, unplaced as to order, while debating either including it in order Caryophyllales or reinstating the order Dilleniales.
The APG II system assigns the second of these families, the Paeoniaceae, to the order Saxifragales.
Taxonomy
The Order Dilleniales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (1): Dilleniaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1,212 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Order Dilleniales.
Families
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. [more]
At least 1,212 species and subspecies belong to the Family Dilleniaceae.
More info about the Family Dilleniaceae may be found here.
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