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Corylaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fagales
Family: Corylaceae
Genera

Carpinus - Hornbeam
Corylus - Hazel
Ostrya - Hop-hornbeam
Ostryopsis - Hazel-hornbeam


Corylaceae, or the hazel family, includes a small number of trees and shrubs in four genera, including the hazels, the hornbeams and the hop-hornbeams. Many botanists include the Corylaceae within the closely related Betulaceae, but it is treated as distinct in the major Kew checklist of the Fagales.

Example species of the four genera are:

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2 Fagales

Betulaceae - Corylaceae - FagaceaeCastanea Chestnuts Castanopsis Chrysolepis Golden chinkapin Colombobalanus Fagus Beeches Formanodendron Lithocarpus Tanbark oaks Nothofagus Southern beeches Quercus Oaks Trigonobalanus The family Fagaceae or beech family is characterized by alternate leav - Ticodendraceae - CasuarinaceaeCasuarinaceae The equisetoid twigs of the Common Ironwood Casuarina equisetifolia . Plantae : Magnoliophyta Magnoliopsida Fagales Casuarinaceae Genera Allocasuarina Casuarina Gymnostoma Casuarinaceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed i - JuglandaceaeWalnut family Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fagales or Juglandales Family Juglandaceae Genera Alfaroa Carya (pecan and hickory) Cyclocarya Engelhardtia (cheo) Juglans (walnut) Oreomunnia Pla - Rhoipteleaceae - Myricaceae Fagales Plant families

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