Berberidopsidales
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The Berberidopsidales are a small order within the flowering plants (Magnoliopsida). Only two families belong to it , the Aextoxicaceae and the Berberidopsidaceae . They have a disjoint area , only found in Chile and eastern Australia .
description
They are evergreen trees or climbing bushes . The leaves are simple. Stipules are missing. There are stone fruits or berries formed.
The two families are morphologically very different and were only combined in one order after molecular biological analyzes. The species also show strong variations in many characteristics within the families. Spiral and whorled flowers as well as one-, three- and five-fold gynoeces can be found .
Systematics
The Berberidopsidales are the sister group of the clade from ( Santalales ( Caryophyllales + asterids )). It only includes two species-poor families:
swell
- Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Volume 9: Flowering Plants - Eudicots. Berberidopsidales, Buxales, Crossosomatales, Fabales pp, Geraniales, Gunnerales, Myrtales pp, Proteales, Saxifragales, Vitales, Zygophyllales, Clusiaceae Alliance, Passifloraceae Alliance, Dilleniaceae, Huaceae, Picramniaceae, Sabiaceae. Springer, Berlin et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-32214-6 .
- The order of berberidopsidales in APWebsite (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group : An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol. 161, No. 2, 2009, ISSN 0024-4074 , pp. 105-121, doi : 10.1111 / j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x .
