Violales


Violales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants and takes its name from the included family Violaceae; it was proposed by Lindley. The name has been used in several systems of [plant">list of systems of plant taxonomy">systems of [plant taxonomy|systems], although some systems used the name Parietales for similar groupings. In the 1981 version of the influential Cronquist system, order Violales was placed in subclass Dilleniidae with a circumscription consisting of the families listed below. Some classifications such as that of Dahlgren placed the Violales in the superorder Violiflorae.
The Angiosperm [Phylogeny Group] system does not recognize order Violales; Violaceae is placed in order Malpighiales and the other families are reassigned to various orders as indicated.