Magnoliidae


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Noun1.Magnoliidae - a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plantsMagnoliidae - a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
magnoliid dicot family - family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
class Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledones, class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida - comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae
order Ranales, order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae
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Since Piperales have somewhat similar reduced bisexual flowers, Friis and Pedersen (2011) suggested that Canrightia may support a relationship between Chloranthaceae and Piperales, contrary to molecular evidence that Piperales are nested within Magnoliidae (as the sister group of Canellales) and Chloranthaceae are outside that clade.
Isoquinoline alkaloids, which currently number more than 2500 members, are isolated mainly from plants of subclasses Magnoliidae and Ranunculidae (Blaschek et al.
This family is assigned to the clade Magnoliid according to the APG III system (2009) and according to Cronquist (1981) it was in subclass Magnoliidae, and order Magnoliales.
(Equisetopsida, Magnoliidae, Asparagales, Amaryllidaceae) are terrestrial herbs, not climbing, with a subterranean bulb, umbellate inflorescence, and white perianth.
APG III: Bibliographical Information and Synonymy of Magnoliidae. Phytotaxa 19: 71-134.
Molecular phylogenetics of the Magnoliidae: cladistic analyses of nucleotide sequences of the plastid gene rbcL.