Malvales
Malvaceae (mallows,...)
Dipterocarpaceae
Sarcolaenaceae
Cistaceae
Muntingiaceae
Bixaceae
Diegodendraceae
Cochlospermaceae
Sphaerosepalaceae
Thymelaeaceae
Neuradaceae
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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.
