5: Magnoliid Identification (4/14)

Question 1

What orders are included in the higher-level group “ANA grade”?

Answer 1

Amborellales
Nymphaeales

Question 2

What orders are included in the higher-level group Magnoliids?

Answer 2

Magnoliales
Laurales
Piperales

Question 3

What families belong to the order Amborellales?

Answer 3

Amborellaceae

Question 4

What families belong to the order Nymphaeales?

Answer 4

Nymphaeaceae

Question 5

What families belong to the order Magnoliales?

Answer 5

Magnoliaceae
Annonaceae

Question 6

What families belong to the order Laurales?

Answer 6

Calycanthaceae
Lauraceae

Question 7

What families belong to the order Piperales?

Answer 7

Aristolochiaceae
Piperaceae

Question 8

Amborellaceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 8

Simple, 2-ranked alternate leaves with pinnate venation and teeth

Question 9

Nymphaeaceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 9

Aquatic
Underground rhizome/tuber
Often palmately veined, sometimes peltate, leaves floating

Question 10

Magnoliaceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 10

Large stipules that leave a leaf scar
Fruits aggregates of follicles, samaras, or berries

Part of Magnoliales

Samaras are winged achenes

Question 11

Annonaceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 11

3 whorls of tepals, each w/ 3 tepals
Aggregate of berries
Filaments short + not well-differentiated, anthers peltate

Part of Magnoliales

Question 12

Calycanthaceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 12

Simple, entire, opposite leaves that are aromatic

Part of Laurales

Many free red tepals on Calycanthus occidentalis

Question 13

Lauraceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 13

Simple, entire, alternate leaves that are aromatic

Part of Laurales

Question 14

Aristolochiaceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 14

Flowers look like smoke pipes
Vine habit, soft-hairy cordate leaves

Part of Piperales

Cordate: heart-shaped

Question 15

Piperaceae

What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?

Answer 15

Very small, highly reduced flowers aggregated into spike or spadix
Seeds with perisperm

Part of Piperales

Perisperm: A layer of nutritive tissue that surrounds the embryo of a seed

Question 16

Amborella

What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?

Answer 16

Simple, 2-ranked leaves with pinnate venation and teeth

Part of Amborellaceae (there’s only one species in the family so the descriptions are the same)

Question 17

Calycanthus

What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?

Answer 17

Simple, entire, opposite leaves that are aromatic

From Calycanthaceae

Question 18

Umbellularia

What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?

Answer 18

Simple, entire, alternate leaves that are aromatic

From Lauraceae

Question 19

Aristolochia

What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?

Answer 19

Flowers look like smoke pipes
Vine habit, soft-hairy cordate leaves

From Aristolochiaceae, pipevine

Question 20

Asarum

What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?

Answer 20

Cordate leaves arising from rhizome
Aromatic oils in rhizome smell like ginger

From Aristolochiaceae, wild ginger