List of malvid families
The malvids consist of eight orders of flowering plants: Brassicales, Crossosomatales, Geraniales, Huerteales, Malvales, Myrtales, Picramniales and Sapindales.[7] The mallow family includes the plants that yield cocoa beans, Cola nuts, cotton and jute.[8] Pomegranates were cultivated by Bronze Age cultures, and wild water chestnuts were consumed in large quantities by prehistoric Europeans.[9] Eucalyptus trees are the tallest known flowering plants, up to 100 m (330 ft) or more; they are grown for timber and for their oils, used in candy, perfumes and cough medicine.[13] From the glossary of botanical terms: The APG IV system is the fourth in a series of plant taxonomies from the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
Theobroma cacaoFlowering plantAPG IVEarly-diverging flowering plantsMonocots:AlismatidsCommelinidsLilioidsEudicotsBasal eudicotsSuperasteridsBasal superasteridsAsteridsBasal asteridsEuasteridsSuperrosidsSaxifragalesRosidsCOM cladeNitrogen-fixing cladeVitales and Zygophyllalesflowering plantsBrassicalesCrossosomatalesGeranialesHuertealesMalvalesMyrtalesPicramnialesSapindalesherbaceouscabbage familybroccoliturnipsradishesornamentalhybridscultivarsPelargoniummallow familycottonPomegranatesBronze Agewater chestnutsEucalyptusMangoscashewssame plant familypoison ivymaple syrupCitrusglossary of botanical termsannualevolutionary treeclimberdeciduousglandularmangroveperennialbiennialsucculentunisexuallignifiedAPG IV systemtaxonomiesAngiosperm Phylogeny Groupmalvidscommon nameType genusetymologyAkaniaceaeAkaniaAkania bidwilliiAlzateaceaeAlzateaJosé Antonio de Alzate y RamírezcartographerAlzatea verticillataAnacardiaceaeAnacardiumAnacardium occidentaleAphloiaceaeAphloiaCrossosomatalesAphloia theiformisBataceaeBatis maritimaBiebersteiniaceaeBiebersteiniaFriedrich August Marschall von BiebersteinrhizomesBixaceaeBixa orellanaannattoBrassicaceaeBrassicacabbagecauliflowerwatercresshorseradishcanola oilmustardsBrassica oleraceaBurseraceaeBurseraJoachim BurserfrankincenseBursera simarubaCapparaceaeCapparisstamensCapparis spinosaCaricaceaeCaricaPapayaCarica papayaCistaceaeCistusvolatile oilsLabdanumCleomaceaeCleomeCleome ornithopodioidesCombretaceaeCombretumCombretum fruticosum