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Violaceae is a family of flowering plants. consisting of about 800 species in 21 genera. It takes its name from the genus Viola, the violets and pansiesPansy Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Violales Family: Violaceae Genus: Viola Species tricolor wittrockiana Binomial name Viola tricolor hortensis ''Viola wittrockiana The Pansy or Pansy Viole.

Older classifications such as the Cronquist systemThe Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and The Evolution and Classification placed Violaceae in an order named after it, the Violales. However, newer classifications such as that of the Angiosperm Phylogeny GroupThe Angiosperm Phylogeny Group is an international group of systematic botanists who have come together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants in the light of the rapid rise of molecular systematics. The angiosperms or fl locate it in the MalpighialesSee text 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 o.

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