Rosiflorae
Rosiflorae is a historical botanical term that was used to describe a grouping of flowering plants in some 19th- and early 20th-century classification systems. The name, which evokes rose-like flowers, reflected an attempt to categorize a set of dicotyledonous plants based on perceived floral similarities. Its exact meaning and boundaries, however, were not fixed and varied among authors.
In different treatments, Rosiflorae encompassed varying collections of families and genera. Some classifications applied the label
With the advent of molecular phylogenetics and a more stable framework for angiosperm relationships, the term
Rosiflorae illustrates how early taxonomic thought relied on morphological likenesses and how contemporary phylogenetic evidence reshaped