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Encyclopedia > Rafflesiales

Rafflesiales
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Superorder: Rafflesianae
Order: Rafflesiales
Families

Apodanthaceae
Cytinaceae
Mitrastemonaceae
Rafflesiaceae Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants 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... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ...

The Rafflesiales are a order of holoparasitic plants. They are found mostly in the tropic area, with the Rafflesiaceae in Southeast Asia, Mitrastemonaceae in Central America, while the other two families are more widespread. Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... A parasite is an organism that lives in or on the living tissue of a host organism at the expense of that host. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ...


While the Apodanthaceae have flowers on less than a centimeter diameter, the flowers of the Rafflesia are the largest flowers with diameters of more than one meter. Species Rafflesia arnoldi Rafflesia cantleyi Rafflesia gadutensis Rafflesia hasseltii Rafflesia keithii Rafflesia kerrii Rafflesia manillana Rafflesia micropylora Rafflesia patma Rafflesia pricei Rafflesia rochussenii Rafflesia schadenbergiana Rafflesia speciosa Rafflesia tengku-adlinii Rafflesia tuan-mudae Rafflesia is a genus of parasitic flowers. ...


The order was first described by Daniel Oliver in 1895. The actual taxonomy standing is unclear, the APG listed them as oddment family. Daniel Oliver (6 February 1830 - 21 December 1916) was a British botanist. ... The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group is an international group of systematic botanists who have come together to try to establish a consensus view of the taxonomy of flowering plants in the light of the rapid rise of molecular systematics. ...


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Rafflesiaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (308 words)
Rafflesiaceae is a family of parasitic plants found in east and southeast Asia, including Rafflesia arnoldii, the plant with the largest flower of all plants.
Rafflesiaceae was considered an unplaced family in the APG II system, while other authors placed it into the order Rafflesiales together with some other families of parasitic plants.
Phylogenetic inference in Rafflesiales: the influence of rate heterogeneity and horizontal gene transfer.
BioMed Central | Full text | Phylogenetic inference in Rafflesiales: the influence of rate heterogeneity and horizontal ... (8084 words)
Rafflesiales are a fascinating and enigmatic group of holoparasitic plants that includes Rafflesia, whose meter-wide flowers are the largest among all angiosperms, and Pilostyles, whose flowers are less than a centimeter in diameter.
Maximum parsimony analyses of the full-length (103 taxon) and reduced (77 taxon) 3-gene matrices were generally congruent and both resulted in all taxa of Rafflesiales being associated with Malvales (Figure 3), although with low bootstrap support for the monophyly of this clade.
Determining the photosynthetic relatives of Rafflesiales has long presented a challenge owing to the extreme reduction and/or modification of morphological structures that have accompanied the evolution of this lineage [3,11].
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