Proteales

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The Proteales are an order of flowering plants, which belong among the basal eudicots. Newer classification schemes include three families:

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• Family Proteaceae (protea family)
• Family Platanaceae (plane family)
• Family Nelumbonaceae (lotus family)

In the older Cronquist system the Proteales have a different composition, comprising the Proteaceae and Elaeagnaceae.

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Flowering plant: Magnoliopsida - Dicots...

Eudicots: (when used)...

Cronquist system: The Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants (or angiosperms). This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist (1919- 1992) in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants (1981) and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants (1988)....