Gentianales

Translingual

Etymology

Gentiana (“from Latin Gentiana, from Gentius, king of Illyria”) +‎ -ales

Proper noun

Gentianales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Magnoliopsida – gentian, dogbane, logania and coffee plants.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades

Hyponyms

• (order): Gentianaceae, Apocynaceae, Gelsemiaceae, Loganiaceae, Rubiaceae - families

Further reading

• Gentianales on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gentianales on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Gentianales on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gentianales at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Gentianales at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Gentianales at APWeb
• “Gentianales”, in Paleobiology Database, 2025
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI