9.5: Malvids & Santalales Flashcards
What bigger groups are included in the Core Eudicots?
Superrosids and superasterids
What orders and bigger groups are included in the Superrosids?
Saxifragales, Vitales
Rosids
What orders are included in the superasterids?
Santalales
Caryophyllales
What groups are within the Rosids?
Fabids and Malvids
What orders are included in the Fabids?
Oxalidales
Malpighiales
Fabales
Rosales
Cucurbitales
Fagales
What orders are included in the Malvids?
Geraniales
Myrtales
Malvales
Sapindales
Brassicales
What families are included in the Brassicales?
Limnanthaceae
Brassicaceae
Brassicaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Tetradynamous stamens
Silique or silicle
Tetradynamous: 6 stamens in a 2 + 4 arrangement
From Brassicales
Silique
What family of plants is it found on?
Capsule formed from two carpels with a false septum forming a partition that divides the fruit into two valves
Septum has a rim (replum) to which the seeds are attached
Found on Brassicaceae
Silicle
What family of plants is it found on?
A silique that is less than 2x as long as it is wide
Found on Brassicaceae
Limnanthaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Flower generally parts in fives
VERY deeply divided ovary
From Brassicales
Sapindales
What families are part of it?
Anacardiaceae
Sapindaceae
Anacardiaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Leaves alternate, usually pinnately compound or trifoliolate
From Sapindales
Toxicodendron
What family is it part of an what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Pinnately trifoliolate leaves
Pinnately trifoliolate: with rachis
From Anacardiaceae
Sapindaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Opposite leaves (in Acer and Aesculus)
Can also have alternate leaves
From Sapindales
Acer
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Seeds are schizocarp of samaras (winged achenes)
Schizocarp: a dry fruit that splits into single-seeded parts when ripe
From Sapindaceae
Aesculus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Opposite, palmately compound leaves
Fruit a leathery capsule w/ one large seed
From Sapindaceae
Santalales
What families are part of it?
Viscaceae
Viscaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Hemiparasites on stems of woody plants
From Sapindales
Arceuthobium
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Yellow scale-like leaves
Scale-like leaves can also be green, brown, or purple
From Viscaceae
Phoradendron
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Opposite leaves
White berries
From Viscaceae
