Salicales

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Salicales - coextensive with the family Salicaceae

plant order - the order of plants

class Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledones, class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida - comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae

family Salicaceae, Salicaceae, willow family - two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus

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For example, under the classification of Cronquist (1981), the diverse host list of the nymphalid tribe Nymphalini includes as dominant themes three families in the order Urticales (Hamamelidae), two in Rosales (Rosidae), one in Salicales (Dillenidae), and two in Fagales (Hamamelidae).

Butterflies and plants: a phylogenetic study

Salicales. The different species of these food plants are (Seth, 2000b):

Trees and their economic importance

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