The name magnoliids (plural, not capitalized) or magnoliid complex is used by the APG II system (2003) for a clade within the angiosperms. The circumscription is:
The clade includes most of the basal groups of the angiosperms.
The plants belonging to this clade of magnoliids are roughly those which in the Cronquist system were assigned to the subclass Magnoliidae, which is the basal group of class Magnoliopsida (the Cronquist name for the dicotyledons).
