Editing Ebenales

{{Short description|Order of flowering plants}}
{{More citations needed|date=September 2015}}
[[File:Diospyros lotus Bra36.png|thumb|''Diospyros lotus'']]
'''Ebenales''' is an [[Order (biology)|order]] of [[flowering plant]]s.<ref>{{cite web
 | title = National Resources Conservation Service
 | work = Classification
 | publisher = United States Department of Agriculture 
 | url = http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=display&classid=Ebenales
 | access-date = 19 April 2015
 }}</ref> This order was recognized in several [[list of systems of plant taxonomy|systems]], for example the [[Bentham & Hooker system]] and the [[Engler system]], although the [[Wettstein system]] preferred the name Diospyrales'. In the 1981 version of the [[Cronquist system]] it was an order placed in subclass [[Dilleniidae]] with the following [[wiktionary:circumscription|circumscription]]:

*order Ebenales
*: family [[Ebenaceae]]<ref name = "mwd">{{cite web
 | title = Ebenales
 | website = Merriam Webster Dictionary
 | publisher = Merriam Webster Dictionary
 | url = http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ebenales
 | access-date = 19 April 2015
 }}</ref>
*: family [[Sapotaceae]]<ref name = "mwd"/>
*: family [[Styracaceae]]<ref name = "mwd"/>
*: family [[Symplocaceae]]<ref name = "mwd"/>

In the [[APG II system]] all the plants involved are assigned to the hugely expanded order ''[[Ericales]]''.<ref>{{cite web
 | title = ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENY WEBSITE 
 | website = Angiosperm Phylogeny Website 
| publisher = Missouri Botanical Gardens
 | date = July 2012
 | url = http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/
 | access-date = 19 April 2015
 }}</ref>

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[[Category:Historically recognized angiosperm orders]]