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Austrobaileyales

Austrobaileyales is one of the earliest-diverging lineages of extant angiosperms, representing a critical window into the origin and early evolution of flowering plants. This order includes species that produce unique secondary metabolites such as essential oils, phenylpropanoids, and primitive alkaloid-like compounds. In biomedical research, Austrobaileyales is significant not only for its limited but chemically informative metabolite profile, but also for its role in reconstructing the evolutionary history of plant-derived pharmacologically active compounds. Its phylogenetic position helps researchers understand how complex biosynthetic pathways evolved in angiosperms, providing insight into the ancestral chemical space from which modern medicinal plants diversified. Although underexplored, Austrobaileyales offers valuable potential for discovering novel bioactive scaffolds.