Eucommiales

(botany) A monotypic order of dicotyledonous plants in the subclass Hamamelidae; plants have two, unitegmic ovules and lack stipules.

An order of flowering plants, division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae), in the subclass Hamamelidae of the class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons). The order consists of a single family, genus, and species, Eucommia ulmoides, of China. It is a simpleleaved tree with reduced, solitary flowers that lack a perianth, and leaves without stipules, the paired basal appendages found on many leaves. See also Hamamelidae; Magnoliopsida.

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Eucommiales is a botanical name for an order of flowering plants. This order was recognised in the Cronquist system, placed in the subclass Hamamelidae [sic], as consisting of a single species: Eucommia ulmoides.

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