Overview
A taxonomic superorder.
Taxonomy
The Superorder Theanae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Order (10): Caryophyllales · Crossosomatales · Ericales · Hypericales · Lecythidales · Malpighiales · Medusagynales · Ochnales · Paracryphiales · Theales
Orders
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. [more]
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. The following three families are placed here: [more]
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 myco-heterotrophic plants (e. g. Sarcodes sanguinea) and carnivorous plants (e. g. genus Sarracenia). [more]
Hypericales
Lecythidales
Lecythidales is a botanical name at the rank of order. The name was used by the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae. This order included only the family Lecythidaceae, which family now (in the APG II system) is placed in the order Ericales. [more]
Malpighiales
Medusagynales
Ochnales
Paracryphiales
Theales
Theales is a botanical name at the rank of order. The name was used by the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae, in the 1981 version of the system the circumscription was: [more]
At least 299 species and subspecies belong to the Order Theales.
More info about the Order Theales may be found here.
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