Lecythidales is a botanical name at the rank of order.1 The name was used by the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae.2 This order included only the family Lecythidaceae, which family now (in the APG II system) is placed in the order Ericales.
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References
- Ditsch, Friedrich (1994). Mikromorphologie der Epicuticularwachse und die Systematik der Dilleniales, Lecythidales, Malvales und Theales (in German). Wilhelm Barthlott. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. ISBN 3-515-06524-5. OCLC 30607687.
- Cronquist, Arthur; Takhtadzhi︠a︡n, Armen Leonovich (1981). An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants. Columbia University Press. p. 366. ISBN 978-0-231-03880-5.