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

The Malvales are an order of flowering plants. Newer systems place them among the rosid group of dicotyledons.

The Malvaceae is taken to include the older families Bombaceae, Sterculaceae, and Tiliaceae. Under the older Cronquist system, the order contained only these four families and the Elaeocarpaceae, and was placed among the Dilleniidae. Some of the current families were placed by Cronquist in the Violales.