These make up a basal group of asterids[?]. Under the older Cronquist system, the Ericales included a smaller group of plants, which were placed among the Dileniidae[?]:
... Denny Doherty[?] 1996 John Kay[?] 1996 Dominic Troiano[?] 1996 Zal Yanovsky 1997 Gil Evans[?] 1997 Lenny Breau[?] 1997 Maynard Ferguson 1997 Moe Koffman[?] ...