order Ranales

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order Ranales - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales plant order - the order of plants Magnoliidae, ranalian complex, subclass Magnoliidae - a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder Annonaceae, custard-apple family, family Annonaceae - chiefly tropical trees or shrubs barberry family, Berberidaceae, family Berberidaceae - shrubs or herbs Calycanthaceae, calycanthus family, family Calycanthaceae, strawberry-shrub family - shrubs or small trees having aromatic bark; the eastern United States and eastern Asia Ceratophyllaceae, family Ceratophyllaceae - coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts Cercidiphyllaceae, family Cercidiphyllaceae - one genus family Lardizabalaceae, lardizabala family, Lardizabalaceae - thick-stemmed lianas and some shrubs; some have edible fruit family Lauraceae, Lauraceae, laurel family - a family of Lauraceae family Magnoliaceae, magnolia family, Magnoliaceae - subclass Magnoliidae: genera Liriodendron, Magnolia, and Manglietia family Menispermaceae, Menispermaceae, moonseed family - herbaceous or woody climbers family Myristicaceae, Myristicaceae, nutmeg family - family of aromatic tropical trees with arillate seeds family Nymphaeaceae, Nymphaeaceae, water-lily family - dicot aquatic plants family Paeoniaceae, Paeoniaceae, peony family - perennial rhizomatous herbs and shrubs; of temperate Europe and North America buttercup family, crowfoot family, family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae - a family of Ranunculaceae family Winteraceae, winter's bark family, Winteraceae - small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae