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| | PBIO 450 Lecture Notes - Dilleniidae -- Spring 1999 |
 | | I restrict the Malvales to six families (Tiliaceae, Dirachmaceae, Byttneriaceae, Sterculiaceae, Bombacaceae and Malvaceae) and divided the Cistales into the Bixales (with Sphaerosepalaceae, Diegodendraceae, Bixaceae and Cochlospermaceae) and the Cistales proper (Muntingiaceae, Cistaceae, Monotaceae, Dipterocarpaceae and Sarcolaenaceae). |
 | | As note under Theales, Cronquist refers Monotaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Sarcolaenaceae, and Sphaerosepalaceae to his Theales where they are out of place given their clear and obvious relationship to the Malvanae. |
 | | They conclude that the malvalian complex is composed of four groups (1) the four core families, Bombacaceae, Malvaceae, Sterculiaceae, Tiliaceae; (2) the bixoid families, Bixaceae, Cochlospermaceae, and Sphaerosepalaceae; (3) the thymelaealan family, Thymelaeaceae; and (4) the cistalan families Cistaceae, Dipterocarpaceae, Sarcolaenaceae and the newly proposed Muntingiaceae. |
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