coextensive with the family Taxaceae: yews

The plant order Taxales was in the past treated as a distinct order in the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, and included only those species in the family Taxaceae, known commonly as yews. Under this interpretation, all other conifers were classified separately in the order Pinales. Recent genetic and studies have however shown that the Taxaceae are closely related to the other conifers, particularly so to the family Cephalotaxaceae.