A Magnoliaceae occurs as personal in the angiosperm The correct sequence Magnoliales. It consists of deuce subfamilies: Magnolioideae, of which Magnolia is the most easily-known genus. Liriodendroidae, the monogeneric subfamily, containing Liriodendron (Tulip trees).

Unlike virtually all angiosperms, whose flower parts come inside rings, the Magnoliaceae keep close at h& their stamens and pistils around spirals in a cone-shaped receptacle. This arrangement is observed within old fossil plants & is believed to become primitive for flowering plant. Their flowers come likewise non and so clearly differentiated into with sepals and petals like virtually all more flowering plants; a "dual-purpose" area that occupy each positions come referred to as tepals.