Taxonavigation

Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Malvales
Familiae (10): Bixaceae – Cistaceae – Cytinaceae – Dipterocarpaceae – Malvaceae – Muntingiaceae – Neuradaceae – Sarcolaenaceae – Sphaerosepalaceae – Thymelaeaceae

Name

Malvales Juss., Prir. Rostlin 221. (1820).

• Typus: Malva L. Sp. Pl. 2: 687. (1753).

References

• Jussieu, A.L. de 1820. O Prirozenosti Rostlin: 221.
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page. 
• Bayer, C., Fay, M.F., de Bruijn, A.Y., Savolainen, V., Morton, C.M., Kubitzki, K., & Chase, M.W. 1999. Support for an expanded family concept of Malvaceae within a recircumscribed order Malvales: A combined analysis of plastid atpB and rbcL DNA sequences, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 267–303. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1999.tb00505.x. Reference page. 
• Ducousso, M., Béna, G., Bourgeois, C., Buyck, B., Eyssartier, G., Vincelette, M., Rabevohitra, R., Randrihasipara, L., Dreyfus, B. & Prin, Y. 2004. The last common ancestor of Sarcolaenaceae and Asian dipterocarp trees was ectomycorrhizal before the India-Madagascar separation, about 88 million years ago. Molecular Ecology 13(1): 231–236. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.02032.x Reference page. 
• Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2014. Malvales. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 25 Jan. 2014.

Vernacular names

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