Overview
Magnoliales is an order of .
Classification
The Magloliales includes six families:
- Annonaceae (custard apple family, over 2000 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas; mostly tropical but some temperate)
- Degeneriaceae (two species of trees found on Pacific islands)
- Eupomatiaceae (two species of trees and shrubs found in New Guinea and eastern Australia)
- Himantandraceae (two species of trees and shrubs, found in tropical areas in Southeast Asia and Australia)
- Magnoliaceae (about 225 species including magnolias and tulip trees)
- Myristicaceae (several hundred species including Nutmeg)
Apg System
The APG system (1998) and the APG II system (2003) place this order is in the clade magnoliids, circumscribed as follows:
In these systems, published by the APG, the Magnoliales are a basal group, excluded from the eudicots.
Earlier Systems
The Cronquist system (1981) placed the order in the subclass Magnoliidae of class Magnoliopsida (=dicotyledons) and used this circumscription:
- order Magnoliales
- family Annonaceae
- family Austrobaileyaceae
- family Canellaceae
- family Degeneriaceae
- family Eupomatiaceae
- family Himantandraceae
- family Lactoridaceae
- family Magnoliaceae
- family Myristicaceae
- family Winteraceae
The Thorne system (1992) placed the order in superorder Magnolianae, subclass Magnoliidae (= dicotyledons), in the class Magnoliopsida (= angiosperms) and used this circumscription (including the plants placed in order Laurales and Piperales by other systems):
- order Magnoliales
- family Amborellaceae
- family Annonaceae
- family Aristolochiaceae
- family Austrobaileyaceae
- family Calycanthaceae
- family Canellaceae
- family Chloranthaceae
- family Degeneriaceae
- family Eupomatiaceae
- family Gomortegaceae
- family Hernandiaceae
- family Himantandraceae
- family Illiciaceae
- family Lactoridaceae
- family Lauraceae
- family Magnoliaceae
- family Monimiaceae
- family Myristicaceae
- family Piperaceae
- family Saururaceae
- family Schisandraceae
- family Trimeniaceae
- family Winteraceae
The Engler system, in its update of 1964, placed the order in subclassis Archychlamydeae in class Dicotyledoneae (=dicotyledons) and used this circumscription:
- order Magnoliales
- family Amborellaceae
- family Annonaceae
- family Austrobaileyaceae
- family Calycanthaceae
- family Canellaceae
- family Cercidiphyllaceae
- family Degeneriaceae
- family Eupomatiaceae
- family Eupteleaceae
- family Gomortegaceae
- family Hernandiaceae
- family Himantandraceae
- family Illiciaceae
- family Lauraceae
- family Magnoliaceae
- family Monimiaceae
- family Myristicaceae
- family Schisandraceae
- family Trimeniaceae
- family Tetracentraceae
- family Trochodendraceae
- family Winteraceae
The Wettstein system, latest version published in 1935, did not use this name although it had an order with a similar circumscription with the name Polycarpicae. This was placed in the Dialypetalae in subclass Choripetalae of class Dicotyledones.
From the above it will be clear that the plants included in this order by APG have always been seen as related. They have always been placed in the order Magnoliales (or a predecessor). The difference is that earlier systems have also included other plants, which have been moved to neighbouring orders (in the magnoliids) by APG.
Photos
Taxonomy
The Order Magnoliales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (3): Degeneriaceae · Himantandraceae · Magnoliaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3,108 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Order Magnoliales.
Families
Degeneriaceae
Degeneriaceae is the for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognised by more than a few taxonomists, at least over the past few decades. [more]
Himantandraceae
Magnoliaceae
Trees or shrubs, deciduous or evergreen, aromatic. Pith homogeneous or diaphragmed. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate; stipules early or tardily deciduous, at first surrounding stem, adnate on adaxial side of petiole (free in Magnolia grandiflora ), often ochreate, leaving persistent annular scar around node. Leaf blade pinnately veined, unlobed (or evenly 2-10-lobed in Liriodendron ), margins entire. Inflorescences terminal, solitary flowers (often paired in Magnolia ashei ), pedunculate; spathaceous bracts 2 (Magnolia ) or 1 (Liriodendron ) . Flowers: perianth hypogynous, segments imbricate; tepals deciduous, 6-18, in 3 or more whorls of 3, ± similar or outer tepals sepaloid, inner tepals petaloid; stamens numerous, hypogynous, free, spirally arranged; filaments very short to 1/2 length of anthers; anthers introrse, latrorse, or extrorse, longitudinally dehiscent; connective with distal appendage; pistils numerous, superior, spirally arranged on elongate receptacle (torus), stalked or sessile, free or ±concrescent, 1-locular; placentation marginal, placenta 1; ovules 1-2; style 1, short and recurved (Magnolia ) or large and winglike (Liriodendron ) ; stigma 1, terminal or terminal decurrent (Magnolia ) or recurved (Liriodendron ) . Fruits conelike syncarps consisting of aggregates of coalescent, woody follicles (follicetums, as in Magnolia ) or apocarps consisting of aggregates of indehiscent samaras (samaracetums, as in Liriodendron ) . Seeds 1-2 per pistil, arillate, endosperm oily (Magnolia ), or without aril, adherent to dry endocarp ( Liriodendron ) .[1] [more]
At least 1,093 species and subspecies belong to the Family Magnoliaceae.
More info about the Family Magnoliaceae may be found here.
References
- ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 399–436. doi:
- ^ Soltis, P. S.; D. E. Soltis (2004). "The origin and diversification of Angiosperms". American Journal of Botany 91: 1614–1626, http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/abstract/91/10/1614.
Bibliography
- Canright, J. E. 1960. The comparative morphology and relationships of the Magnoliaceae. III. Carpels. Amer. J. Bot. 47(2): 145-155.
- Demuth, P. and F. S. Santamour Jr. 1978. Carotenoid flower pigments in Liriodendron and Magnolia. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 105(1): 65-66.
- Hardin, J. W. and K. A. Jones. 1989. Atlas of foliar surface features in woody plants, X. Magnoliaceae of the United States. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 116(2): 164-173.
- Nooteboom, J. P. 1985. Notes on Magnoliaceae. Blumea 31: 65-121.
- Praglowski, J. 1974. Magnoliaceae Juss. Taxonomy by J. E. Dandy. World Pollen Spore Fl. 3: 1-48.
- Sargent, C. S. 1890-1902. The Silva of North America.... 14 vols. Boston and New York. Vol. 1, pp. 1-20.
- Spongberg, S. A. 1976. Magnoliaceae hardy in temperate North America. J. Arnold Arbor. 57: 250-312.
- Wood, C. E. Jr. 1958. The genera of the woody Ranales in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 39: 296-346.
Footnotes
- Frederick G. Meyer "Magnoliaceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Sources
- The text on this page is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It includes material from Wikipedia retrieved Friday, November 14, 2008.
- The distribution map on the Distribution tab comes from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and is used with permission.
- Photographs on this page are copyrighted by individual photographers, and individual copyrights apply.
- The GMapImageCutter is used under license from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis.
- The technology underlying this page, including the Image Browser and controls behind Keep Exploring, is owned by the BayScience Foundation. All rights are reserved.