Campanulales Explained

Campanulales is a valid botanic name for a plant order. It was used in the Cronquist system as an order within the subclass Asteridae in the class Magnoliopsida flowering plants. As then circumscribed it included the families:

• Pentaphragmataceae In Watson and Dallwitz this family has 1 genus, Pentaphragma with 30 species from southeast Asia.
• Sphenocleaceae - 1 genus
• Campanulaceae (harebells) - 28 genera
• Stylidiaceae In Watson and Dallwitz it has 5 genera and 150 species.
• Donatiaceae
• Brunoniaceae In Watson and Dallwitz there is only one species in the family, Brunonia australis
• Goodeniaceae (naupaka) - 1 genus

Campanulales is not recognized as an order in the APG II system, where the families are included in order Asterales, except for Sphenocleaceae in Solanales.

References

• • L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/