These in turn are part of a group that has long been recognized, namely, the rosids. == History == The French botanist Charles Plumier named the genus Malpighia in honor of Marcello Malpighi's work on plants; Malpighia is the type genus for the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants. The family Malpighiaceae was the type family for one of the orders created by Jussieu in his 1789 work Genera Plantarum.
Friedrich von Berchtold and Jan Presl described such an order in 1820.
The name was not used by those who wrote later, in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. The taxon was largely presaged by Hans Hallier in 1912 in an article in the Archiv.
The name was not used by those who wrote later, in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s. The taxon was largely presaged by Hans Hallier in 1912 in an article in the Archiv.
The first semblance of Malpighiales as now known came from a phylogeny of seed plants published in 1993 and based upon DNA sequences of the gene rbcL.
Since the APG II system was published in 2003, minor changes to the circumscription of the order have been made.
The largest family, by far, is the Euphorbiaceae, with about 6300 species in about 245 genera. In a 2009 study of DNA sequences of 13 genes, 42 families were placed into 16 groups, ranging in size from one to 10 families.
The statistical support for each branch is 100% bootstrap percentage and 100% posterior probability, except where labeled, with bootstrap percentage followed by posterior probability. ===2012=== In 2012, Xi et al.
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