Ranunculales is an order of flowering plants. Of necessity it contains the family Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family, because the name of the order is based on the name of a genus in that family. Ranunculales belongs to a paraphyletic group known as the basal eudicots. It is the most basal clade in this group; in other words, it is sister to the ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculales
buttercup order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Magnoliidae. The order contains 8 families, 167 genera, and about ... [2 related articles] Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/12