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Order Malpighiales
Marilyn M. Ogatia
BS Biology
2007-001735-6
Classification
Kingdom: PlantaePhylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: MagnoliopsidaOrder: Malpighiales
Order Malpighiales
♥ One of the largest orders of flowering plants
♥ Includes 40 families and over 700 genera
♥ Contains about 1600 species♥ Included in the Group Eudicots
Order Malpighiales
♥ Evolution: diverged some time in the Cretaceous-late Aptian, perhaps some 114 million years before present
♥ Contains 7.8% Eudicot Diversity♥ Morphology:
- Paracytic stomata may characterize a sizable clade- Three carpellate gynoecia are known from many families
Order Malpighiales
♥ Morphology
-Articulation of the pedicels
Families under the Order Malpighiales
♥ Achariaceae♥ Balanopaceae♥ Bonnetiaceae ♥ Caryocaraceae♥ Centroplacaceae♥ Chrysobalanaceae ♥ Clusiaceae♥ Ctenolophonaceae♥ Elatinaceae♥ Euphorbiaceae
♥ Goupiaceae♥ Humiriaceae♥ Hyperricacea♥ Irvingiaceae♥ Ixonanthaceae♥ Lacislemataceae♥ Linaceae♥ Lophopyxidaceae
Families under the Order Malpighiales♥ Malpighiaceae♥ Ochnaceae♥ Passifloraceae♥ Phyllanthaceae♥ Picrodendraceae♥ Podostemaceae♥ Putrajinvaceae♥ Rafflesiaceae
♥ Rhizoporaceae♥ Salicaceae♥ Violaceae