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Piperales

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taxon links [up-->]Saururaceae [up-->]Hydnoraceae Phylogenetic position of group is uncertain[down<--]magnoliids Interpreting the tree
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Relationships after Qiu et al. (1999, 2000), Savolainen et al. (2000) and Soltis et al. (2000)
Containing group: magnoliids

References

Carlquist, S. 1990. Wood anatomy and relationships of Lactoridaceae. American Journal of Botany 77:1498-1505.

Donoghue, M. J. and J. A. Doyle. 1989. Phylogenetic analysis of angiosperms and the relationships of Hamamelidae. Pp. 17-45 in Evolution, Systematics and Fossil History of the Hamamelidae, ed. P. Crane and S. Blackmore. Oxford; Clarendon Press.

Doyle, J. A., M. J. Donoghue and E. A. Zimmer. 1994. Integration of morphological and rRNA data on the origin of angiosperms. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 81:419-450.

Doyle, J. A. and P. K. Endress. 2000. Morphological phylogenetic analysis of basal angiosperms: Comparison and combination with molecular data. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S121-S153.

Gonzalez, F. and P. Rudall. 2001. The questionable affinities of Lactoris: Evidence from branching pattern, inflorescence morphology, and stipule development. American Journal of Botany 88:2143-2150.

Igersheim, A. and P. K. Endress. 1998. Gynoecium diversity and systematics of the paleoherbs. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 127:289-370.

Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 1999. The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes. Nature 402:404-407.

Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 2000. Phylogeny of basal angiosperms: Analyses of five genes from three genomes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S3-S27.

Savolainen, V., M. W. Chase, S. B. Hoot, C. M. Morton, D. E. Soltis, C. Bayer, M. F. Fay, A. Y. De Bruijn, S. Sullivan, and Y. L. Qiu. 2000. Phylogenetics of flowering plants based on combined analysis of plastid atpB and rbcL gene sequences. Systematic Biology 49:306-362.

Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, M. W. Chase, M. E. Mort, D. C. Albach, M. Zanis, V. Savolainen, W. H. Hahn, S. B. Hoot, M. F. Fay, M. Axtell, S. M. Swensen, L. M. Prince, W. J. Kress, K. C. Nixon, and J. S. Farris. 2000. Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA, rbcL, and atpB sequences. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 133:381-461.

Tucker, S. C., A. W. Douglas, and L. Han-Xing. 1993. Utility of Ontogenetic and Conventional Characters in Determining Phylogenetic Relationships of Saururaceae and Piperaceae (Piperales). Systematic Botany 18:614-641.

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Scientific Name Macropiper excelsum
Location Wellington, New Zealand
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Body Part flowers, leaves
Source kawakawa
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2006 Jon Sullivan
Scientific Name Aristolochia ringens
Location cultivated
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Body Part flower
Source Aristolochia ringens
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2007 Dinesh Valke
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