Malpighiales

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MALPIGHIALES

Malpighiales are of the Kingdom: Plantae

A large order of flowering plants. Vessel element type; sieve tubes with non-dispersive protein bodies; leaf margin toothed; teeth with a single vein running into a congested deciduous apex; stigma dry; exotegmen fibrous.

Crown Malpighiales diverged some time in the Cretaceous-late Aptian period. Diversification seems to have been rapid. The order contains ca 7.8% eudicot diversity and is particularly important in tropical rainforests where it is an important component of the diversity of the understory; it accounts for up to some 28% of the species and 38% of the total stems. Articulation of the pedicels is another feature that may be common to the order. Malpighiales are still poorly understood.

Families include:

''Achariaceae
''Balanopaceae
''Bhesa
''Bonnetiaceae
''Caryocaraceae
''Centroplacaceae
''Chrysobalanaceae
''Clusiaceae
''Ctenolophonaceae
''Dichapetalaceae
''Elatinaceae
''Erythroxylaceae (coca family)
''Euphorbiaceae (spurge family)
''Euphroniaceae
''Goupiaceae
''Humiriaceae
''Hypericaceae (St John's wort family)
''Irvingiaceae
''Ixonanthaceae
''Lacistemataceae
''Linaceae (flax family)
''Lophopyxidaceae
''Malpighiaceae (acerola family)
''Malesherbiaceae
''Medusagynaceae
''Ochnaceae
''Pandaceae
''Passifloraceae (passion-flower family)
''Peridiscaceae
''Phyllanthaceae
''Picrodendraceae
''Podostemaceae
''Putranjivaceae
''Quiinaceae
''Rafflesiacaceae
''Rhizophoraceae (mangrove family)
''Salicaceae (willow family)
''Trigoniaceae
''Turneraceae (damiana family)
''Violaceae (violet family)

''_{40 families, 716 genera, 15935 species.}

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