9: 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
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 Geraniales?
Geraniaceae
Geraniaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Schizocarp splits into plumose beaked mericarps separate from persistent style
Schizocarp: fruits that break apart at maturity starts as one pistil that splits into several sections at maturity
Mericarp: one of the individual segments or carpels that make up a schizocarp fruit
From Geraniales
Erodium
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Schizocarp splits that splits into spiraled mericarps
Pinnately veined and compound leaves
Schizocarp: fruits that break apart at maturity starts as one pistil that splits into several sections at maturity
Mericarp: one of the individual segments or carpels that make up a schizocarp fruit
From Geraniaceae
Geranium
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Schizocarp splits upwards into curled mericarps
Palmate venation and lobing
Schizocarp: fruits that break apart at maturity starts as one pistil that splits into several sections at maturity
Mericarp: one of the individual segments or carpels that make up a schizocarp fruit
From Geraniaceae
What families are included in the Myrtales?
Onagraceae
Myrtaceae
Melastomataceae
Onagraceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Clawed petals
Floral parts in 4s
Clawed: narrowed at the base
From Myrtales
Clarkia
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Clawed petals
Floral parts in 4s
Sepals often adherent in 2s and 4s
From Onagraceae
Myrtaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Woody capsules, sometimes on stems
Often showy stamens
From Myrtales
Eucalyptus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Odor of oils when crushed
Ovary matures into woody capsule
From Myrtaceae
Melastomataceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Characteristic 3-9 sub-parallel primary veins
Geniculate stamens
Geniculate: with knee-like bend
From Myrtales
What families are included in the Malvales?
Malvaceae
Malvaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Valvate sepals
Epicalyx
From Malvales
Epicalyx: whorl of bracts subtending the calyx
Fremontodendron
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Yellow calyx with bracts subtending it
The yellow calyx looks like petals but they’re not
From Malvaceae
