{{Short description|Clade of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{geological_range|Late Cretaceous|recent}} | image = Torenia fournieri at Kudayathoor.jpg | image_caption = ''Torenia fournieri'' | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Superasterids | authority = | subdivision_ranks = Clades | subdivision_ref = {{r|APG4}} | subdivision = * Berberidopsidales * Santalales * Caryophyllales * Asterids *: Cornales *: Ericales *: Euasterids *:: Lamiids *:: Campanulids }}
The '''superasterids''' are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing more than 122,000 species.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
The clade is divided into 20 orders as defined in APG IV system. These orders, in turn, together comprise about 146 families.{{r|APG4}}
The name is based upon the name "Asteridae", which had usually been understood to be a subclass.
== Relationships == The asterids, Berberidopsidales, Santalales, and Caryophyllales form the superasterids clade.{{r|apweb}} This is one of three groups that compose the Pentapetalae (core eudicots minus Gunnerales),{{r|cantino2007}} the others being Dilleniales and the superrosids (Saxifragales and rosids).{{r|apweb}}
== Phylogeny == The phylogeny of superasterids shown below is adapted from the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group website.{{r|apweb}}
{{Clade |style=font-size:100%;line-height:110%; |label1=superasterids |1={{Clade |1=Berberidopsidales |2=Santalales |3=Caryophyllales |label4=asterids |4={{Clade |1=Cornales |2={{Clade |1=Ericales |label2=euasterids |2={{Clade |label1=campanulids |1={{clade |1=Aquifoliales |2={{clade |1=Asterales |2=Escalloniales |3={{clade |1=Bruniales |2={{clade |1=Apiales |2={{clade |1=Dipsacales |2=Paracryphiales }} }} }} }} }} |label2=lamiids |2={{clade |1=Icacinales |2={{clade |1=Metteniusales |2={{clade |1=Garryales |2={{clade |1=Boraginales |2=Gentianales |3=Vahliales |4=Lamiales |5=Solanales }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}
== References == {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name="APG4">{{Cite journal |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2016 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=181 |issue=1 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.1111/boj.12385 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
<ref name="cantino2007">{{citation |author1=Philip D. Cantino |author2=James A. Doyle |author3=Sean W. Graham |author4=Walter S. Judd |author5=Richard G. Olmstead |author6=Douglas E. Soltis |author7=Pamela S. Soltis |author8=Michael J. Donoghue |name-list-style=amp | year = 2007 | title = Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of ''Tracheophyta'' | journal = Taxon | volume = 56 | issue = 3 | pages = 822–846 | url = http://www.phylodiversity.net/donoghue/publications/MJD_papers/2007/164_Cantino_Taxon07.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080705223344/http://www.phylodiversity.net/donoghue/publications/MJD_papers/2007/164_Cantino_Taxon07.pdf | url-status = usurped | archive-date = July 5, 2008 | doi = 10.2307/25065865 |jstor=25065865 }}</ref> <ref name="apweb">{{citation | author = Peter F. Stevens | date = 2001| url = http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html | title = Angiosperm Phylogeny Website }}</ref> }}
== External links == *{{Commons category-inline}}
{{Angiosperm orders}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q23927181}}
Category:Core eudicots Category:Plant unranked clades Category:Cretaceous plants Category:Extant Cretaceous first appearances