Ranunculales

Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family.

The APG system (1998) and the APG II system (2003) both recognize the order and place it among the basal eudicots, not assigned to a further clade. These systems use this circumscription: order Ranunculales
family Berberidaceae
family Circaeasteraceae
[+ family Kingdoniaceae ]
family Eupteleaceae
family Lardizabalaceae
family Menispermaceae
family Papaveraceae
[+ family Fumariaceae ]
[+ family Pteridophyllaceae ]
family Ranunculaceae
Note: "+ ..." = optional segregrate family, that may be split off from the preceding family.

Under this definition, well-known members of Ranunculales include buttercups, clematis, columbines, delphiniums, and poppies.

The Cronquist system (1981) also recognised the order, but placed it in the subclass Magnoliidae, in class Magnoliopsida [= dicotyledons]. It used this circumscription: order Ranunculales
family Ranunculaceae
family Circaeasteraceae
family Berberidaceae
family Sargentodoxaceae
family Lardizabalaceae
family Menispermaceae
family Coriariaceae
family Sabiaceae

In the Cronquist system the Papaveraceae and Fumariaceae (including the plants in the optional family Pteridophyllaceae) were treated as a separate order Papaverales, placed in this same subclass Magnoliidae.

Translation

The word "Ranunculales" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Bulgarian, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Finnish, Swedish.

Translation(s) in other languages: Catalan: Ranunculal, Czech: Pryskyřníkotvaré, Danish: Ranunkel-ordenen, German: Hahnenfußartige, Estonian: Tulikalaadsed, Esperanto: Ranunkolaloj, Korean: 미나리아재비목, Hebrew: נוריתאים, Lithuanian: Vėdryniečiai, Hungarian: Boglárkák, Japanese: キンポウゲ目, Polish: Jaskrowce, Russian: Лютикоцветные, Ukrainian: Жовтецевоцвіті, Vietnamese: Bộ Mao lương, Chinese: 毛茛目.