Ranunculales
Sign in to saveRanunculales 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
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- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRanunculales
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
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Research
8,724 papers- A cornucopia of diversity-Ranunculales as a model lineage.Journal of experimental botany · 2024
- Genetics of flower development in Ranunculales - a new, basal eudicot model order for studying flower evolution.The New phytologist · 2017
- Convergent evolution of berberine biosynthesis.Science advances · 2024
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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.
==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).