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Fagales
Fagus sylvatica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiospermae
(unranked):	Eudicots
Order:	Fagales Engler
Families
See text.

The Fagales are an order of flowering plants, including some of the best known trees. The order name is derived from genus Fagus, Beeches. They belong among the rosid group of dicotyledons. The families and genera currently included are as follows:

• Nothofagaceae - Southern beech family (Nothofagus, Fucospora, Brassospora, Lophozonia)
• Fagaceae - Beech family (Fagus, Quercus, Castanea, Castanopsis, Lithocarpus, Trigonobalanus, Colombobalanus)
• Juglandaceae - Walnut family (Juglans, Carya, Cyclocarya, Alfaroa, Engelhardia, Oreomunnea, Platycarya)
• Myricaceae - Bayberry family (Myrica, Canacomyrica, Morella, Comptonia)
• Rhoipteleaceae - Rhoiptelea family (Rhoiptelea)
• Ticodendraceae - Ticodendron family (Ticodendron)
• Betulaceae - Birch family (Betula, Alnus, Carpinus, Corylus, Ostrya, Ostryopsis)
• Casuarinaceae - She-oak family (Casuarina, Gymnostoma, Ceuthostoma, Allocasuarina)

Older texts such as the Kew checklist (see external link below) which followed the Cronquist system only included four families (Betulaceae, Corylaceae, Fagaceae, Ticodendraceae; Corylaceae now being included within Betulaceae). The other families were split into three different orders, placed among the Hamamelidae. The Casuarinales comprised the single family Casuarinaceae, the Juglandales comprised the Juglandaceae and Rhoipteleaceae, and the Myricales comprised the remaining forms (plus Balanops). The change is due to studies suggesting that the Myricales, so defined, are paraphyletic to the other two groups.

External links

• Missouri Botanical Gardens - Fagales
• Kew checklist - Fagales

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Etymology

Latin fāgus (“‘beech tree’”).

Proper noun

Fagales

1. (taxonomy) A taxonomic order within the class Magnoliopsida — many common trees.

Hyponyms

From Wikispecies

Carpinus betulus.

Taxonavigation

Classification System: APG II (down to family level)

Main Page
Cladus: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiospermae
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fagales
Familiae: Betulaceae - Casuarinaceae - Fagaceae - Juglandaceae - Rhoipteleaceae - Myricaceae - Nothofagaceae - Ticodendraceae

Name

Fagales Engler

Synonyms

• Betulales
• Casuarinales
• Corylales
• Juglandales
• Myricales
• Nothofagales
• Quercales
• Rhoipteleales

Vernacular name

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