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8 sectionsContents
- Circumscription in the Takhtajan system
- Circumscription in the Cronquist system
- Circumscription in the Dahlgren system
- Circumscription in the Thorne system
- Circumscription in the Wettstein system
- APG system
- See also
- References
thumb|right|250px|Phalaenopsis orchid
Orchidales is an order of flowering plants. In taxonomical systems, this is a relatively recent name as early systems used descriptive botanical names for the order containing the orchids. The Bentham & Hooker and the Engler systems had the orchids in order Microspermae while the Wettstein system treats them as order Gynandrae (a descriptive name referring to the stamens). In taxonomical systems these two descriptive names have now mostly dropped out of use.