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Cornales

The Cornales are an order of flowering plants, basal among the asterid group of dicotyledons. Newer classifications include the following families:

Family Cornaceae (dogwood[?] family)
Family Nyssaceae[?]
Family Hydrangeaceae (hydrangea family)
Family Loasaceae[?] (stickleaf[?] family)
Family Hydrostachyaceae[?]
Family Curtisiaceae (cape lancewood[?])
Family Grubbiaceae[?] (sillyberry[?] family)

Under the older Cronquist system the order instead comprised the families Cornaceae, Garryaceae[?], and Alangiaceae[?], and was placed among the Rosidae.

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