| Aquifoliales | |
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| Yerba mate | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Clade: | Campanulids |
| Order: | Aquifoliales Senft[2] |
| Families[3] | |
TheAquifoliales are an order offlowering plants, including theAquifoliaceae (holly) family, and also theHelwingiaceae (2-5 species of temperateAsianshrubs) and thePhyllonomaceae (4 species ofCentral Americantrees andshrubs). In 2001, the familiesStemonuraceae andCardiopteridaceae were added to this order.[4] Thiscircumscription of Aquifoliales was recognized by theAngiosperm Phylogeny Group when they published theAPG II system in 2003.[5] In theCronquist system, there is no Aquifoliales order: the Aquifoliaceae are placed within the orderCelastrales and the others are in other families.
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