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Encyclopedia > Hernandiaceae
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Hernandiaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Laurales
Family: Hernandiaceae
Genera
Hernandia
Illigera
Gyrocarpus
Sparattanthelium

Hernandiaceae is a family that consist of 46 species in four genera of trees and shrubs. Genus Hernandia is spreaded throughout the tropical areas. Genus Illigera is found mainly in Eastern and Southeastern China. Genera Gyrocarpus and Sparattanthelium are found mainly in the American continent. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Atherospermataceae Calycanthaceae Gomortegaceae Hernandiaceae Lauraceae Monimiaceae Siparunaceae The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. ...


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Laurales (3343 words)
However, relationships between Monimiaceae, Lauraceae and Hernandiaceae are difficult to work out, this being one of the few cases where there seems to be persistent disagreement between morphology and molecules (Renner and Chanderbali 2000).
Monimiaceae + Hernandiaceae + Lauraceae: (plants Al accumulators); (cork outer cortical); A whorled, microsporogenesis successive, columellae foot layer and endexine 0, ovule apical, (micropyle bistomal).
Hernandiaceae + Lauraceae: primary stem ± with vascular cylinder; vessel elements with simple perforations; mucilage cells +; sieve tube plastids also with starch; leaves spiral (lobed); flower parts whorled, (filaments slender), tapetum amoeboid, exine thin, intine very thick, G 1, ovule pachychalazal, outer integument 4
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