{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Apiales
| image = Umbella.jpg
| image_caption = Inflorescence of a wild carrot, ''[[Daucus carota]]'', in the [[Apiaceae]] family.
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = '''Apiales'''
| ordo_authority = [[Takenoshin Nakai|Nakai]]
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision =
* [[Apiaceae]] ([[carrot]] family)
* [[Araliaceae]] ([[ginseng]] family)
* [[Aralidiaceae]]
* [[Griselinia]]ceae
* [[Mackinlayaceae]]
* [[Melanophyllaceae]]
* [[Myodocarpaceae]]
* [[Pennantiaceae]]
* [[Pittosporaceae]]
* [[Torricelliaceae]]
}}

The '''Apiales''' are an order of [[flowering plant]]s. The families given at right are typical of newer classifications, though there is some slight variation, and in particular the Torriceliaceae may be divided. These families are placed within the [[asterid]] group of [[dicotyledon]]s.

Under this definition well-known members include [[carrot]]s, [[celery]], [[parsley]], and [[ivy]].

Under the [[Cronquist system]], only the Apiaceae and Araliaceae were included here, and the restricted order was placed among the rosids rather than the asterids. The Pittosporaceae were placed within the [[Rosales]], and the other forms within the family [[Cornaceae]].

==References==

*Chandler, G.T. and G. M. Plunkett. 1994. Evolution in Apiales: nuclear and chloroplast markers together in (almost) perfect harmony. ''Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society'' 144: Page 123-147 (abstract available online [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2003.00247.x here]).


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