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Ranunculales

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Ranunculales

Mahonia aquifolium (Berberidaceae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Ranunculales
Families
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The Ranunculales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicotss. Newer systems include the following families:

A few other families may be separated out from the Ranunculaceae. In the older Cronquist system, the Eupteleaceae were excluded, and the Papaveraceae and Fumariaceae (including the Pteridophyllaceae) were treated as a separate order Papaverales.