Cornales

Cornales; Temporal range:
	Dove tree in flower, a species in Nyssaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Cornales; Link
Families
	Cornaceae; Curtisiaceae; Grubbiaceae; Hydrangeaceae; Hydrostachyaceae; Loasaceae; Nyssaceae;

The Cornales are an order of flowering plants, early diverging among the asterids, containing about 600 species. Plants within the Cornales usually have four-parted flowers, drupaceous fruits, and inferior to half-inferior gynoecia topped with disc-shaped nectaries.

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