Euphorbiales Explained

Euphorbiales is an order of flowering plants that is not currently recognized in the most authoritative modern treatment of plant taxonomy.^[1] In the APG II system (2003) the plants involved are mostly placed in the order Malpighiales.

A well known system that did recognize the order was the Cronquist system (1981) which placed the order in subclass Rosidae and used this circumscription:

• order Euphorbiales

family Buxaceae

family Simmondsiaceae

family Euphorbiaceae (more broadly defined than in the APG II and III systems)

family Pandaceae

Notes and References

1. Webster . Grady . January 1987 . The saga of the spurges: a review of classification and relationships in the Euphorbiales . Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society . 94 . 1–2 . 3–46 . 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1987.tb01036.x.