Dilleniidae

Dilleniidae is a botanical name at the rank of subclass.^[1]^[2] Circumscription of the subclass will vary with the taxonomic system being used; the only requirement being that it includes the family Dilleniaceae. A well-known system that uses this name is the Cronquist system, and in the original 1981 version of the system the circumscription was:

subclass Dilleniidae
order Dilleniales

order Theales

order Malvales

order Lecythidales

order Nepenthales

order Violales

order Salicales

order Capparales

order Batales

order Ericales

order Diapensiales

order Ebenales

order Primulales

Recent molecular systematic studies have shown that this group is polyphyletic. The APG II system does not use formal botanical names above the rank of order but assigns the plants involved to various orders in the asterids and rosids clades.

References

^ Mauseth, James D. (2003). Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology. Jones & Bartlett Learning. p. 774. ISBN 978-0-7637-2134-3.
^ Walters, Dirk R.; Keil, David J. (1996). Vascular Plant Taxonomy. Kendall Hunt. p. 317. ISBN 978-0-7872-2108-9.

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