Urticales

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Urticales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. This order was recognised in many, perhaps even most, systems, with some variations in . Among these is the Cronquist system, which placed the order in the subclass Hamamelidae [sic], as comprising :

family Barbeyaceae
family Cannabaceae
family Cecropiaceae
family Moraceae
family Physenaceae
family Ulmaceae
family Urticaceae

In the APG II system the plants belonging to this order, often in new family circumscriptions, are placed in the order Rosales.

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