Botany: 35 families, 13100 species.
Botany: ovary superior, often of 3 fused carpels, dry stigmas; leaves often simple, entire, leathery, fleshy, trilacunar nodes; seed fibrous exotegmen; flowers inconspicuous, reduced, unisexual; ovary of 2 carpels, unilocular, single apical ovule; pollen porate, wind pollinated, stamens 5 or less, single whorl; fruit drupaceous; cystolids of calcium carbonate.
DD:
Ericaceae;
Fabaceae.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Malpighiales is one of the Orders in
Fabidae.
Malpighiales is part of the COM clade:
Celastrales, Oxalidales and
Malpighiales. The order of the
Malpighiales is somewhat strange in the sense that it is the one with the smallest amount of qualities common to all the families. It is based mostly on DNA analysis. A common feature is the trilacunar nodes in the leaf attachment.
Some suborders have formerly been treated as orders such as
Violales and
Euphorbiales.
In the
Cronquist classification Violales includes many families, that in the
Apg3 classification are transferred to other orders:
Cucurbitaceae and
Datiscaceae to
Cucurbitales,
Cistaceae to
Malvales, Tamaricaceaea to
Caryophyllales and
Caricaceae to
Brassicales. In the
Apg3 classification the “
Violales” clade is a Suborder in the Order of the
Malpighiales. It includes
Violaceae,
Passifloraceae, Salicaeae,
Turneraceae and
Achariaceae.
In the
Plant theory the
Malpighiales is split into 2 Orders.
Violales is split off from
Malpighiales.
Violales is placed in
Phase 2.
Subphases1.
Linaceae.
2.
Passifloraceae.
3.
Turneraceae, Malesherbiaceae
4. Salicaeae.
5.
Violaceae.
6.
Achariaceae.
7.
Chrysobalanaceae.