Canellales
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White cinnamon bark tree ( Canella winterana ), illustration |
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The canellales are a plant order in the informal group of Magnoliopsida . It contains two families.
description
They are evergreen, woody plants. The plants are hairless. The primary stem axis contains a continuous vascular cylinder. The sieve tube plastids contain starch and protein crystalloids and / or threads. The vascular bundles in the petiole are curved. The leaves contain branched scleriids .
The flowers are hermaphroditic. The flower organs are arranged in a spiral, not divided into flower circles, all parts of the flower are free: with two to six sepals , zero to many petals , three to many stamens and two to many carpels . The shape of the stamens and carpels is very original. The fruits are berries .
distribution
The area is disjoint and mainly in the southern hemisphere . Their home is the tropics and subtropics .
Systematics
The order, first described by Arthur John Cronquist in 1957, belongs to the informal group of the Magnoliids , a basal group of the opulent of four orders. Her sister taxons are the peppery ones . Two families belong to the Canellales:
swell
- The order 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 .
