(botany) A small order of dicotyledonous plants; members are highly specialized, nongreen, rootless parasites which grow from the roots of the host.
Rafflesiales
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An order of flowering plants, division Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae), in the subclass Rosidae of the class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledons). The order consists of three families and fewer than a hundred species, all tropical or subtropical. The plants are highly specialized, nongreen, rootless parasites which grow from the roots of the host. They have few or solitary, rather large to very large flowers with numerous ovules and a single set of tepals that are commonly united into a conspicuous, corolloid calyx. See also Magnoliopsida; Rosidae.
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Rafflesiales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants. The name was first published by Oliver in 1895. The Cronquist system used this name for an order placed in subclass Rosidae with the following circumscription (1981) :
- order Rafflesiales
- family Hydnoraceae
- family Mitrastemonaceae
- family Rafflesiaceae
The APG II system regards Rafflesiaceae as an unplaced family of three genera. Also unplaced is the genus Mitrastema. However, APG II does have a placement for family Hydnoraceae, in the order Piperales.
According to the AP-Website, recent research places Rafflesiaceae in order Malpighiales.
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