Malpighiales
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 flower of Alexandrian Laurel (Calophyllum inophyllum)
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The Malpighiales are a large order of flowering plants, included in the group named eurosids I in the recent APG classification. Its internal systematics are still uncertain. This diverse order covers plants as superficially dissimilar as violets and willows, passion-fruit and mangrove, poinsettia and flax.
Under the Cronquist system, the families now included in the Malpighiales were dispersed throughout a number of different orders, not all of which belonged to the Rosidae. The most notable of these are the Polygalales, Violales, Theales, Linales, and Euphorbiales.
The family Malpighiaceae, itself, was placed in Polygalales, an order still recognised by ITIS.
