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carnasiales

Carnasiales is a historical name used in plant taxonomy to denote an order of flowering plants. The term has appeared in multiple classification schemes, but it is not recognized in modern, widely used systems such as the APG system. In its various forms, Carnasiales served as a way to group together several families whose relationships were unclear at the time.

The exact composition of Carnasiales varied among authors. Some circumscriptions included a small number of taxa,

With the advent of molecular phylogenetics, studies failed to recover Carnasiales as a natural, monophyletic group.

while
others
proposed
a
larger,
more
heterogeneous
assemblage.
Because
of
the
diversity
of
included
members
and
the
reliance
on
largely
morphological
characters,
the
concept
was
controversial.
Consequently,
the
term
fell
out
of
routine
use,
and
the
families
once
placed
in
Carnasiales
were
redistributed
into
other
orders
according
to
different
classification
schemes.
Today
Carnasiales
is
primarily
of
historical
interest,
mentioned
in
discussions
of
the
development
of
angiosperm
taxonomy
and
in
surveys
of
historical
classifications.