NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Cornales

The Cornales are an order of flowering plants, basal among the asterid group of dicotyledons. Newer classifications include the following families:

Family Cornaceae (dogwood family)
Family Nyssaceae (tupelo family)
Family Hydrangeaceae (hydrangea family)
Family Loasaceae (stickleaf family)
Family Hydrostachyaceae
Family Curtisiaceae (cape lancewood)
Family Grubbiaceae (sillyberry family)

Under the older Cronquist system the order instead comprised the families Cornaceae, Garryaceae, and Alangiaceae, and was placed among the Rosidae.

Categories: Cornales

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Phylogenetic analyses of Cornales based on 26S rRNA and combined 26S rDNA-MATK-RBCL sequence data -- Fan and Xiang 90 ... (6322 words)
	be sister to the remainder of Cornales, that Cornus-Alangium
	Among the 68 sequences of Cornales and outgroups, 1048 of the
	Xiang Q.-Y. Moody D. Soltis C. Fan P. Soltis 2002 Relationships within Cornales and circumscription of Cornaceae: matK and rbcL sequence data and effects of outgroups and long branches.

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