The Celastrales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. Newer classifications include the following three families: Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Genera About 90-100 genera, including: Cassine– Catha– Khat Celastrus– Staff vineor Staff tree Euonymus– Spindle Maytenus– Maiten Mortonia– Mortonia Paxistima Putterlickia Tripterygium The Celastraceae, or staff vine family, is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the... Species About 30, including: Celastrus angulatus - Chinese staff vine Celastrus australis - Australian staff vine Celastrus dispermus - Orange boxwood Celastrus pyracanthus - South african staff vine Celastrus orbiculatus - Oriental staff vine Celastrus scandens - American staff vine The staff vines, also known as staff trees, genus Celastrus, comprise about 30 species of shrubs... Genera LepuropetalonParnassia Parnassiaceae is a family of dicotyledon plants containing appoximately fifty species in the genus Parnassia; a second genus, Lepuropetalon, is also sometimes included. ... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ...
Under the older Cronquist system, the order included a larger group of families: Genera About 90-100 genera, including: Cassine– Catha– Khat Celastrus– Staff vineor Staff tree Euonymus– Spindle Maytenus– Maiten Mortonia– Mortonia Paxistima Putterlickia Tripterygium The Celastraceae, or staff vine family, is a family of about 90-100 genera and 1,300 species of vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the... Species About 30, including: Celastrus angulatus - Chinese staff vine Celastrus australis - Australian staff vine Celastrus dispermus - Orange boxwood Celastrus pyracanthus - South african staff vine Celastrus orbiculatus - Oriental staff vine Celastrus scandens - American staff vine The staff vines, also known as staff trees, genus Celastrus, comprise about 30 species of shrubs... Genera LepuropetalonParnassia Parnassiaceae is a family of dicotyledon plants containing appoximately fifty species in the genus Parnassia; a second genus, Lepuropetalon, is also sometimes included. ... The Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). ...
the staff-tree family, in the order Celastrales, comprising about 55 genera of woody vines, shrubs, and trees, native in tropical and temperate zones but best known for ornamental forms of the genera Euonymus and Celastrus (bittersweet).
Nonconiferous trees that are called white cedar include the chinaberry and some members of the flowering plant families Bignoniaceae, Celastraceae, Myristicaceae, Burseraceae, and Dipterocarpaceae.
The Celastrales consists of up to 12 families and a little more than 2,000 species, of which Celastraceae, Hippocrateaceae, Aquifoliaceae, and Icacinaceae comprise the bulk of the order.
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