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Encyclopedia > Magnoliales
Magnoliales

Magnolia blossom
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Magnoliales
Families

Annonaceae
Degeneriaceae
Eupomatiaceae
Himantandraceae
Magnoliaceae
Myristicaceae


The Magnoliales are an order of flowering plants. Newer classifications include the following families:

Under the Cronquist system, the following families were also included:

The Magnoliales are a basal group, traditionally included among the dicots but apparently as closely related to the monocots as to most other such plants. They include the genus Magnolia, the type genus for the flowering plants in general, which are thereby called the Magnoliophyta.


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Magnoliales (3973 words)
MAGNOLIIDS [MAGNOLIALES + LAURALES + CANELLALES + PIPERALES]: (neolignans +); vessels solitary and in radial multiples; leaf margins entire; A many, spiral [possible position here], extrorse, antipodal cells ephemeral, hypostase +, nucellar cap +, raphal bundle branches at the chalaza.
MAGNOLIALES + LAURALES: cuticle waxes as annularly-ridged rodlets, palmitol the main wax; pollen with lamellate endexine.
Degeneriaceae may be recognised by their spiral, entire, estipulate leaves and large, axillary flowers with many tepals and a single carpel.
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