Ranunculales

Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots. It is sister to the remaining members of this group; in other words, it is sister to the remaining eudicots. Widely known members include poppies, barberries, hellebores, and buttercups.

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Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants that includes well-known families like buttercups, poppies, and barberries, and represents an early-branching group within the broader eudicot flowering plants. Understanding this order matters because it helps botanists classify the evolutionary relationships among diverse flowering plants and provides insight into how modern plant diversity originated.

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Species

Ranunculales

ORDER

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderRanunculales

Habitatbrackish, freshwater

Observations recorded17,897,131

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Research

8,725 papers

A cornucopia of diversity-Ranunculales as a model lineage.ReviewJournal of experimental botany · 2024RanOmics group, Becker A, Bachelier JB et al.DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad492
Genetics of flower development in Ranunculales - a new, basal eudicot model order for studying flower evolution.ReviewThe New phytologist · 2017Damerval C, Becker ADOI: 10.1111/nph.14401
Convergent evolution of berberine biosynthesis.Science advances · 2024Xu Z, Tian Y, Wang J et al.DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads3596
Drug metabolism and disposition diversity of Ranunculales phytometabolites: a systems perspective.ReviewExpert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology · 2016Hao da C, Yang LDOI: 10.1080/17425255.2016.1201068
Coptidis rhizoma and berberine as anti-cancer drugs: A 10-year updates and future perspectives.ReviewPharmacological research · 2025Chen G, Zhang C, Zou J et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2025.107742
The genome of Corydalis reveals the evolution of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis in Ranunculales.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2022Xu Z, Li Z, Ren F et al.DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15788
Mining Therapeutic Efficacy from Treasure Chest of Biodiversity and Chemodiversity: Pharmacophylogeny of Ranunculales Medicinal Plants.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2022Hao DC, Xu LJ, Zheng YW et al.DOI: 10.1007/s11655-022-3576-x
A Comprehensive Review of the Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, and Therapeutic Efficacies of Black Cumin (Nigella sativa L.) Seed Oil and Its Thymoquinone.ReviewJournal of medicinal food · 2025Chatterjee G, Saha AK, Khurshid S et al.DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2024.k.0149

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Commons category: Ranunculales
start time: 124000000-
taxon common name: 毛茛目
taxon name: Ranunculales
PAEnflowered taxon URL: www.paenflowered.org/apgii/ranunculales

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==Taxonomy== The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group recognized seven families in Ranunculales in their APG III system, published in 2009. In the preceding APG II system, they offered the option of three segregate families as shown below. order Ranunculales family Berberidaceae family Circaeasteraceae [+ family Kingdoniaceae ] family Eupteleaceae family Lardizabalaceae family Menispermaceae family Papaveraceae [+ family Fumariaceae ] [+ family Pteridophyllaceae ] family Ranunculaceae Note: "+ ..." = optionally separate family (that may be split off from the preceding family).