Two members of the core Saxifragales had sometimes been placed near Saxifragaceae, but usually elsewhere . " Aphanopetalum " was often placed in Cunoniaceae, a family in Oxalidales, even though there were good reasons to put it in Saxifragales . " Aphanopetalum " is now excluded from Cunoniaceae.
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Two members of the core Saxifragales had sometimes been placed near Saxifragaceae, but usually elsewhere . " Aphanopetalum " was often placed in Cunoniaceae, a family in Oxalidales, even though there were good reasons to put it in Saxifragales . " Aphanopetalum " is now excluded from Cunoniaceae.
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In 2004, using DNA from " Peridiscus ", it was shown that Elatinaceae and Malpighiaceae are indeed sister families and that Peridiscaceae belong to Saxifragales . " Medusandra " and " Soyauxia ", meanwhile, were listed in APG II in an appendix entitled " TAXA OF UNCERTAIN POSITION ".
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But by 1988 he had reduced Coptidoideae to a tribe within Isopyroideae, leaving five subfamilies, an arrangement he continued in his 1993 monograph, dividing the larger subfamilies into tribes, though by then " Paeonia " and " Glaucidium " were no longer considered to belong to Ranunculaceae . " Paeonia " was separated from Ranuculaceae and placed in its own family of Paeoniaceae ( order Saxifragales ) . other genera originally included in Ranunculaceae include " Circaeaster " which was placed in its own family Circaeasteraceae.
