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eudicots

Tricolpates

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taxon links [up-->]Ranunculales [up-->]Buxaceae [up-->]Proteales [up-->]Core Eudicots Phylogenetic position of group is uncertainPhylogenetic position of group is uncertainPhylogenetic position of group is uncertain[down<--]Angiosperms Interpreting the tree
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The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.

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Relationships after Savolainen et al. 2000b and Hilu et al. (2003).
Containing group: Angiosperms

Other Names for eudicots

References

Anderson, C. L., K. Bremer, and E. M. Friis. 2005. Dating phylogenetically basal eudicots using rbcL sequences and multiple fossil reference points. American Journal of Botany 92:1737-1748.

Carlquist, S. 1992. Wood anatomy of sympetalous dicotyledon families: a summary, with comments on systematic relationships and evolution of the woody habit. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 79:303-332.

Donoghue, M. J. and J. A. Doyle. 1989. Phylogenetic studies of seed plants and angiosperms based on morphological characters. Pp. 181-193 in The Hierarchy of Life, ed. B. Fernholm, K. Bremer and H. Joernvall. Amsterdam; Elsevier Publ.

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.

Drinnan, A. N., P. R. Crane, and S. B. Hoot. 1994. Patterns of floral evolution in the early diversification of non-magnoliid dicotyledons (eudicots). Plant Systematics and Evolution 8 (Suppl.):93-122.

Endress, P. K. and A. Igersheim. 1999. Gynoecium diversity and systematics of the basal eudicots. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 130:305-393.

Hilu, K. W., C. Black, D. Diouf and J. G. Burleigh. 2008. Phylogenetic signal in matK vs. trnK: A case study in early diverging eudicots (angiosperms). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(3):1120-1130.

Hilu, K. W., T. Borsch, K. Müller, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, V. Savolainen, M. W. Chase, M. P. Powell, L. A. Alice, R. Evans, H. Sauquet, C. Neinhuis, T. A. B. Slotta, J. G. Rohwer, C. S. Campbell, and L. W. Chatrou. 2003. Angiosperm phylogeny based on matK sequence information. American Journal of Botany 90(12):1758-1776.

Hoot, S. B. and P. R. Crane. 1995. Interfamilial relationships in the Ranunculidae based on molecular systematics. Plant Systematics and Evolution 9 (Suppl.):119-131.

Hoot, S. B., S. Magallón-Puebla, and P. R. Crane. 1999. Phylogeny of basal eudicots based on three molecular datasets: atpB and rbcL sequences, trnK restriction sites and morphological characters. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86:119-131.

Judd, W. S. and R. G. Olmstead. 2004. A survey of tricolpate (eudicot) phylogenetic relationships. American Journal of Botany 91:1627-1644.

Kim, S., D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. J. Zanis, and Y. Suh. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among early-diverging eudicots based on four genes: were the eudicots ancestrally woody? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(1):16-30.

Magallón, S., P. R. Crane, and P. S. Herendeen. 1999. Phylogenetic pattern, diversity and diversification of eudicots. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86:297-372.

Nandi, O. I., M. W. Chase, and P. K. Endress. 1998. A combined cladistic analysis of angiosperms using rbcL and non-molecular data sets. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85:137-212.

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. 2000a. Phylogenetics of flowering plants based on combined analysis of plastid atpB and rbcL gene sequences. Systematic Biology 49:306-362.

Savolainen, V., M. F. Fay, D. C. Albach, A. Backlund, M. van der Bank, K. M. Cameron, S. A. Johnson, M. D. Lledó, J.-C. Pintaud, M. Powell, M. C. Sheahan, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, P. Weston, W. M. Whitten, K. J. Wurdack, and M. W. Chase. 2000b. Phylogeny of the eudicots: a nearly complete familial analysis based on rbcl gene sequences. Kew Bulletin 55:257-309.

Soltis, D. E., A. E. Senters, M. J. Zanis, S. Kim, J. D. Thompson, P. S. Soltis, L. P. Ronse De Craene, P. K. Endress, and J. S. Farris. 2003. Gunnerales are sister to other core eudicots: implications for the evolution of pentamery. American Journal of Botany 90(3):461-470.

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.

Information on the Internet

Relationships of Parasitic Flowering Plants. Parasitic Plant Connection. Dan Nickrent, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
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Location Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Location cultivated
Comments Proteales, Proteaceae
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