Celastrales
The Celastrales are an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. Newer classifications include the following three families:
- Family Celastraceae (bittersweet family)
- Family Parnassiaceae
- Family Lepidobotryaceae
Under the older Cronquist system, the order included a larger group of families:
- Family Celastraceae
- Family Geissolomataceae
- Family Hippocrateaceae
- Family Stackhousiaceae
- Family Salvadoraceae
- Family Tepuianthaceae
- Family Aquifoliaceae
- Family Icacinaceae
- Family Aextoxicaceae
- Family Cardiopteridaceae
- Family Corynocarpaceae
- Family Dichapetalaceae
