Roses, Elms, Figs, and Allies
Rosales
Rosales is an order of flowering plants. It is sister to a clade consisting of Fagales and Cucurbitales. It contains about 7700 species, distributed into about 260 genera. Rosales comprise nine families, the type family being the rose family, Rosaceae. The largest of these families are Rosaceae (90/2500) and Urticaceae (54/2600). The order Rosales is divided into three clades that have never been assigned a taxonomic rank. The basal clade consists of the family Rosaceae; another...
9 branches of this order, most-observed first
rose family
familyRosaceae
mulberry and fig family
familyMoraceae
Nettle Family
familyUrticaceae
buckthorn family
familyRhamnaceae
elm family
familyUlmaceae
Hackberry Family
familyCannabaceae
oleaster family
familyElaeagnaceae
barbeya family
familyBarbeyaceae
dirachma family
familyDirachmaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47132.