Heather-like

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Heather-like
Erica plukenetii

Erica plukenetii

Systematics
Subdivision : Seed plants (Spermatophytina)
Class : Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
Eudicotyledons
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Asterids
Order : Heather-like
Scientific name
Ericales
Bercht. & J. Presl

The heather-like (Ericales) are an order of the flowering plants (Magnoliopsida).

description

There are trees and shrubs , half-shrubs and shrubs , sometimes small trees , which often occur on acid sites and sometimes xeromorph are built, but also vines and herbaceous plants . They often live symbiotically with mycorrhizal fungi (mycotrophic). The flowers are usually five-fold. The bloom cladding sheets are often fused ( sympetalie ).

Systematics and distribution

The heather-like are quite basal within the asterids and are the sister group of the Euasterids ( Euasterids I + Euasterids II ). The following families are counted to it:

Cladogram according to (simplified):




Balsaminaceae


   

Marcgraviaceae


   

Tetrameristaceae




   


Polemoniaceae


   

Fouquieriaceae



   

Lecythidaceae


   


Sladeniaceae


   

Pentaphylacaceae



   

Sapotaceae


   

Ebenaceae


   

Primulaceae




   

Mitrastemonaceae


   

Theaceae


   

Symplocaceae


   

Styracaceae


   

Diapensiaceae




   



Actinidiaceae


   

Roridulaceae


   

Sarraceniaceae





   

Clethraceae


   

Cyrillaceae


   

Ericaceae





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Individual evidence

  1. 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. Volume 161, No. 2, 2009, pp. 105-121, DOI: 10.1111 / j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x .
  2. Ericales - mobot.org

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