An Ordinal Classification for the Families of Flowering Plants

Abstract

Recent cladistic analyses are revealing the phylogeny of flowering plants in increasing eee and -is suppor for the monophyly of many major groups above the family level.With many elements of the major bran of phylogeny established, a revised suprafamilial classification of flowering plants becomes ud feasible 2 deal ble.Here we present a classification of 462 flowering plant families in 40 putatively monophyletic orders and a small number of кинен, informal higher groups.The latter are the monocots, commelinoids, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids including eurosids I and II, and asterids including euasterids I and II.Under these informal groups there аге also listed a number of families without assignment to order.At the end of the system is an additional list of families of uncertain position for which no firm data exist regarding placement anywhere within the system.