Nances, Willows, and Allies
Malpighiales
The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 16,000 species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsettia, and coca plant, and are hard to recognize except with molecular phylogenetic evidence. It is not part of any of the classification systems based only on plant morphology. Molecular clock calculations estimate the origin of stem group Malpighiales at around 100 million...
36 branches of this order, most-observed first
Spurge Family
familyEuphorbiaceae
willow family
familySalicaceae
Violet Family
familyViolaceae
St. John's wort family
familyHypericaceae
Passionfruit Family
familyPassifloraceae
Leaf-flower Family
familyPhyllanthaceae
Flax Family
familyLinaceae
nance family
familyMalpighiaceae
Red Mangrove Family
familyRhizophoraceae
attorney tree family
familyClusiaceae
ochna family
familyOchnaceae
Coco Plum Family
familyChrysobalanaceae
acharia family
familyAchariaceae
calophyllum family
familyCalophyllaceae
pera family
familyPeraceae
picrodendron family
familyPicrodendraceae
coca family
familyErythroxylaceae
ironplum family
familyPutranjivaceae
rafflesia family
familyRafflesiaceae
waterwort family
familyElatinaceae
souari family
familyCaryocaraceae
riverweed family
familyPodostemaceae
gifblaar family
familyDichapetalaceae
lacistema family
familyLacistemataceae
humiria family
familyHumiriaceae
bonnetia family
familyBonnetiaceae
nian mu family
familyIxonanthaceae
African mango family
familyIrvingiaceae
Trigoniaceae
familyTrigoniaceae
goupia family
familyGoupiaceae
kana family
familyPandaceae
centroplacus family
familyCentroplacaceae
balanops family
familyBalanopaceae
euphronia family
familyEuphroniaceae
ctenolophon family
familyCtenolophonaceae
lophopyxis family
familyLophopyxidaceae
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 51820.