Oxalidales

Oxalidales
	Ceratopetalum apetalum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Clade:	Fabids
Order:	Oxalidales; Bercht. & J.Presl
Families
	Brunelliaceae; Cephalotaceae; Connaraceae; Cunoniaceae; Elaeocarpaceae; Huaceae; Oxalidaceae;

Oxalidales is an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of eudicots. This group comprises six families that contain approximately 2000 species in 58 genera. They are trees, shrubs or woody vines which are found in the wet tropics, particularly on mountains, and warm temperate zones, especially in the southern hemisphere.^[2] Compound leaves are common in Oxalidales and the majority of the species in this order have five or six sepals and petals. The following families are typically placed here:^[3]

Family Brunelliaceae
Family Cephalotaceae (Cephalotus follicularis)
Family Connaraceae
Family Cunoniaceae
Family Elaeocarpaceae
Family Huaceae
Family Oxalidaceae (wood sorrel family)

The family Cephalotaceae contains a single species, a pitcher plant found in Southwest Australia.

Under the Cronquist system, most of the above families were placed in the Rosales. The Oxalidaceae were placed in the Geraniales, and the Elaeocarpaceae split between the Malvales and Polygalales, in the latter case being treated as the Tremandraceae.