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Ranunculales

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Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots. It is sister to the remaining members of this group; in other words, it is sister to the remaining eudicots. Widely known members include poppies, barberries, hellebores, and buttercups.

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Ranunculales is an order within the class Magnoliopsida and phylum Tracheophyta of the kingdom Plantae. The taxon was described by Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl in 1820 and is currently accepted. It originated approximately 124 million years ago.

The order is associated with brackish and freshwater habitats. Records indicate 17,897,131 occurrences, and the subject is referenced by 1,766 other encyclopedia articles.

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Ranunculales

ORDER

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderRanunculales
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
Observations recorded17,897,131

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Research

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Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots. It is sister to the remaining members of this group; in other words, it is sister to the remaining eudicots. Widely known members include poppies, barberries, hellebores, and buttercups.

==Taxonomy== The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group recognized seven families in Ranunculales in their APG III system, published in 2009. In the preceding APG II system, they offered the option of three segregate families as shown below. order Ranunculales family Berberidaceae family Circaeasteraceae [+ family Kingdoniaceae ] family Eupteleaceae family Lardizabalaceae family Menispermaceae family Papaveraceae [+ family Fumariaceae ] [+ family Pteridophyllaceae ] family Ranunculaceae Note: "+ ..." = optionally separate family (that may be split off from the preceding family).

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