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Malpighiales

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Malpighiales
Families
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The Malpighiales are a large order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons.

Under the older Cronquist system, the families now included in the Malpighiales were dispersed throughout a number of different orders, not all of which belonged to the Rosidae. The most notable of these are the Polygalales, Violales, Theales, Linales , and Euphorbiales. The type family, the Malpighiaceae , was placed in Polygalales, an order still recognised by ITIS.

The following families are placed here in modern classification systems:

Plants

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