Phylum:
Angiosperm
Class:
Magnoliids
Order:
Illiciales
2-4 families of shrubs, trees and Lianas
Native to Australasia, SE Asia and SE United States
The families contain species with essential oils
Family:
Illiciaceae
Family:
Schisandraceae
Order:
Nymphaeales
3 families, about 10 genera, more than eighty species
included as basal angiosperms
most species are rhizomatous aquatic herv, with a broad leaf base, large flowers
Family:
Hydatellaceae
Family:
Cabombaceae
Family:
Nymphaeceae
Water lilies
Order:
Ceratophyllales
1 family, one living genus, 30 species described, 7 accepted.
also called coontails, most are cosmopolitan
Family:
Ceratophyllaceae
Order:
Proteales
Family:
Nelumbonaceae
Genus:
Nelumbo
Aquatic plants with large flowers, members are commonly called Lotus.
2 extant species with more than 30 extinct
a basal genus
Order:
Rafflesiales
considered an unplaced family with three genera
Family:
Hydnoracea
2 genera, with 17 species
unusual subterranean haloparasites (total parasite, require host to live).
Family:
Mitrastemonaceae
1 genus, with 2 species
non-photosynthetice root parasites
Family:
Raffesiaceae
3 genera with about 40 species
rare rootless parasitic plant
