Order Malpighiales

Marilyn M. Ogatia

BS Biology

2007-001735-6

Classification

Kingdom: PlantaePhylum: Magnoliophyta

Class: MagnoliopsidaOrder: Malpighiales

Order Malpighiales

♥ One of the largest orders of flowering plants

♥ Includes 40 families and over 700 genera

♥ Contains about 1600 species♥ Included in the Group Eudicots

Order Malpighiales

♥ Evolution: diverged some time in the Cretaceous-late Aptian, perhaps some 114 million years before present

♥ Contains 7.8% Eudicot Diversity♥ Morphology:

- Paracytic stomata may characterize a sizable clade- Three carpellate gynoecia are known from many families

Order Malpighiales

♥ Morphology

-Articulation of the pedicels

Families under the Order Malpighiales

♥ Achariaceae♥ Balanopaceae♥ Bonnetiaceae ♥ Caryocaraceae♥ Centroplacaceae♥ Chrysobalanaceae ♥ Clusiaceae♥ Ctenolophonaceae♥ Elatinaceae♥ Euphorbiaceae

♥ Goupiaceae♥ Humiriaceae♥ Hyperricacea♥ Irvingiaceae♥ Ixonanthaceae♥ Lacislemataceae♥ Linaceae♥ Lophopyxidaceae

Families under the Order Malpighiales♥ Malpighiaceae♥ Ochnaceae♥ Passifloraceae♥ Phyllanthaceae♥ Picrodendraceae♥ Podostemaceae♥ Putrajinvaceae♥ Rafflesiaceae

♥ Rhizoporaceae♥ Salicaceae♥ Violaceae