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FABALES

?Fabales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Bromhead
Families

Fabaceae (legumes)
Quillajaceae
Polygalaceae (milkwort family)
Surianaceae

The Fabales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of eudicots: in APG it includes the families given at right. Under the older Cronquist system the other families now treated here were placed in separate orders: the Polygalaceae within the Polygalales, and the others within the Rosales.