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Encyclopedia > Trimeniaceae
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Schisandraceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Austrobaileyales
Family: Trimeniaceae
Perk. & Gilg
Genera
  • Piptocalyx (=Trimenia)
  • Trimenia

Trimeniaceae is a small family of flowering plants, with 5 species in 1 or 2 genera. The family is subtropical to tropical and found in eastern Malaysia, eastern Australia and the Pacific Islands. Its members are trees bearing essential oils. 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 typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Austrobaileyales are an order of basal flowering plants comprising the following families: Family Austrobaileyaceae Family Trimeniaceae Family Illiciaceae (star anise) Family Schisandraceae (schisandra, kadsura) This essentially corresponds to the order Illiciales in the older Cronquist system, which only included the last two families. ... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Subtropical (or semitropical) areas are those adjacent to the tropics, usually roughly defined as the ranges 23. ... The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... The Pacific Ocean has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 islands; the exact number has not been precisely determined. ... An essential oil, is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds extracted from plants. ...


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Trimeniaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (228 words)
Trimeniaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants.
Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists, at least for the past several decades.
Trimeniaceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards) The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval.
Trimeniaceae (377 words)
Morely and Toelkin (1983): Trimeniaceae in Australia has two genera: Sphenostemon now in its own family and Piptocalyx.
Endress and Sampson (1983): "The fruit contains a hard layer that is grooved or ridged on the outer surface in some species.
Floral structure and relationships of the Trimeniaceae (Laurales).
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