Laurales
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Laurales are a group of flowering plants that belong to a larger category called magnoliids, which are among the more ancient lineages of flowering plants. Understanding Laurales helps scientists piece together the evolutionary history of flowering plants and how they diversified over time.
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The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. They are magnoliids, related to the Magnoliales.
The order includes about 2500–2800 species from 85 to 90 genera, which comprise seven families of trees and shrubs. Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate zone. The best known species in this order are those of the Lauraceae (for example bay laurel, cinnamon, avocado, and Sassafras), and the ornamental shrub Calycanthus of the Calycanthaceae.