Lamiales
Characteristics, Order, Families, Species, & Facts
Lamiales, mint order of flowering plants, including 24 families, 1,059 genera, and about 23,755 species. The main families in the order are Lamiaceae, Verbenaceae, Plantaginaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Orobanchaceae, Acanthaceae, Gesneriaceae, Bignoniaceae, Oleaceae, Pedaliaceae, and the small carnivorous families Lentibulariaceae and Byblidaceae.
Lamiales belongs to the asterids, or sympetalous lineage of flowering plants, in the lamiids group of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (APG IV) botanical classification system (see angiosperm).
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