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Ranunculidae

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Ranunculidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(obsolete system)
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Subclass: Ranunculidae
Takht. ex Reveal
Type genus
Ranunculus

Ranunculidae is a subclass of flowering plants (Angiosperms) used in some taxonomic systems such as the Takhtajan system or Reveal system.[1] By necessity it includes the order Ranunculales, but otherwise it differs between taxonomic systems. More recent classification systems such as the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group do not use subclasses for Angiosperms.[1]

This grouping was first proposed by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 as Ranunculaceae, considered an order within de Jussieu's classification system.[2] It would later be elevated to the rank of subclass by James L. Reveal in 1992,[3] but would become obsolete under the APG III system.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Reveal, James L. (2011). "Summary of recent systems of angiosperm classification". Kew Bulletin. 66: 5–48. doi:10.1007/s12225-011-9259-y.
  2. ^ de Jussieu, Antoine Laurent (1789). Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita (in Latin). p. 231. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.284. OCLC 5161409 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  3. ^ Reveal, James L. (1992). "Validation of Subclass and Superordinal Names in Magnoliophyta". Novon. 2 (3): 235–237. doi:10.2307/3391558. ISSN 1055-3177. JSTOR 3391558 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ^ Reveal, James L.; Chase, Mark W. (2011). "APG III: Bibliographical Information and Synonymy of Magnoliidae". Phytotaxa. 19 (1): 71–134. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.4. ISSN 1179-3155.