Malpighiales: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The Malpighiales are a large order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons.

Under the older Cronquist system, the families now included in the Malpighiales were dispersed throughout a number of different orders, not all of which belonged to the Rosidae. The most notable of these are the Polygalales, Violales, Theales, Linales, and Euphorbiales. The type family, the Malpighiaceae, was placed in Polygalales, an order still recognised by ITIS.

The following families are placed here in modern classification systems:

• Family Malpighiaceae (acerola family)
• Family Peridiscaceae
• Family Trigoniaceae
• Family Dichapetalaceae
• Family Euphroniaceae
• Family Chrysobalanaceae
• Family Balanopaceae
• Family Violaceae (violet family)
• Family Malesherbiaceae
• Family Turneraceae
• Family Passifloraceae (passion-flower family)
• Family Achariaceae
• Family Lacistemaceae
• Family Goupiaceae
• Family Lophopyxidaceae
• Family Podostemaceae
• Family Hypericaceae (St John's wort family)
• Family Clusiaceae
• Family Bonnetiaceae
• Family Elatinaceae
• Family Medusagynaceae
• Family Ochnaceae
• Family Quiinaceae
• Family Caryocaraceae
• Family Rhizophoraceae (mangrove family)
• Family Erythryloxaceae (coca family)
• Family Linaceae (flax family)
• Family Ctenolophonaceae
• Family Humiriaceae
• Family Ixonanthaceae
• Family Salicaceae (willow family)
• Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family)
• Family Phyllanthaceae
• Family Picodendraceae
• Family Putranjivaceae
• Family Pandaceae
• Family Irvingiaceae