Violales is a botanical name of an order of flowering plants and takes its name from the included family Violaceae; it was proposed by Lindley (1853). The name has been used in several systems, although some systems used the name Parietales for similar groupings. In the 1981 version of the influential Cronquist system, order Violales was placed in subclass Dilleniidae with a circumscription consisting of the families listed below. Some classifications such as that of Dahlgren placed the Violales in the superorder Violiflorae (also called Violanae).
The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) system does not recognize order Violales; Violaceae is placed in order Malpighiales and the other families are reassigned to various orders as indicated.
order Violales Perleb 1826
family Achariaceae → order Malpighiales
family Ancistrocladaceae → order Caryophyllales
family Begoniaceae → order Cucurbitales
family Bixaceae → order Malvales
family Caricaceae → order Brassicales
family Cistaceae → order Malvales
family Cucurbitaceae → order Cucurbitales
family Datiscaceae → order Cucurbitales
family Dioncophyllaceae → order Caryophyllales
family Flacourtiaceae → included in family Salicaceae, in order Malpighiales
family Fouquieriaceae → order Ericales
family Frankeniaceae → order Caryophyllales
family Hoplestigmataceae → uncertain position
family Huaceae → eurosids I (direct placement) family Lacistemataceae → order Malpighiales family Loasaceae → order Cornales family Malesherbiaceae → order Malpighiales (optionally inside Passifloraceae) family Passifloraceae → order Malpighiales family Peridiscaceae → order Saxifragales family Scyphostegiaceae → included in family Salicaceae, in order Malpighiales family Stachyuraceae → order Crossosomatales family Tamaricaceae → order Caryophyllales family Turneraceae → order Malpighiales (optionally inside Passifloraceae) family Violaceae → order Malpighiales