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The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 36 families and more than 16,000 species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsettia, manchineel, rafflesia and coca plant, and are hard to recognize except with molecular ...
Magnoliophyta. (unranked): Rosids. Order: Malpighiales. The Malpighiales are a large order of flowering plants, included in the group named Eurosids I in the recent APG classification. This diverse order includes plants as varied as violets and willows, passionfruit and mangrove, poinsettia and flax. Euphorbia is a toxic member of the order.
Reinwardtia. wild flax. Linaceae, the flax family, comprising about 14 genera of herbaceous plants and shrubs, in the order Malpighiales, of cosmopolitan distribution. The genus Linum includes flax, perhaps the most important member of the family, grown for linen fibre and linseed oil and as a garden ornamental.
Origin and Botanical Classification. Acerola or the Barbados cherry tree are the common names of Malpighia emarginata D.C., and its taxonomic classification is: class Magnoliopsida, order Malpighiales, family Malpighiaceae, genus Malpighia, and species M. emarginata D.C.
The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 16,000 species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsettia, and coca plant, and are hard to recognize except with molecular phylogenetic evidence.
Malpighia is a genus of flowering plants in the nance family, Malpighiaceae. It contains 108 species of shrubs or small trees, all of which are native to the American tropics, ranging from Texas through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean to Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae, Peraceae, Rafflesiaceae: The traditional Euphorbiaceae has been split into five or six different families. Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) now contains 218 genera and about 5,700 species, many of which are very poisonous. Peraceae includes five genera and 135 species.
