Canellales

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Canellales is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants. It is only rarely recognized by systems of plant classification.

The APG II system, of 2003, does accept this order and places it in the clade magnoliids, using this circumscription:

order Canellales
: family Canellaceae
: family Winteraceae

Apparently there has been no system except APG II that brings these two families together in an exclusive unit. These two families have always been placed among the most primitive angiosperms. This includes the APG system, of 1998, which did not recognize such an order and placed these two families among the basal lineages in the angiosperms.

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