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Lamiales
The Lamiales are an order of flowering plants, included among the asterid group of dicotyledons. The following families are typical of newer classifications:
- Family Lamiaceae (mint family)
- Family Verbenaceae[?] (verbena[?] family)
- Family Scrophulariacae[?] (figwort[?] family)
- Family Myoporaceae[?]
- Family Orobanchaceae[?] (broomrape[?] family)
- Family Acanthaceae (acanthus family)
- Family Pedaliacae[?] (pedalium[?] family)
- Family Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper[?] family)
- Family Lentibulariaceae[?] (bladderwort[?] family)
- Family Plantaginaceae[?] (plantago family)
- Family Paulowniaceae[?]
- Family Martyniaceae[?]
- Family Byblidaceae[?]
- Family Phrymaceae[?]
- Family Schlegeliaceae[?]
- Family Stilbaceae[?]
- Family Tetrachondraceae[?]
- Family Carlemanniaceae[?]
- Family Gesneriaceae[?] (gesneria[?] family)
- Family Calceolariaceae[?] (slipper flowers[?])
- Family Tetrachondraceae[?]
- Family Oleaceae (olive family)
- Family Plocospermataceae[?]
Under the older Cronquist system of classification, the Lamiales included the families Lamiaceae, Verbenaceae[?], Boraginaceae, and Lennoaceae[?]. Many of the other families given above were placed in an order Scrophulariales.
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