10: Caryophyllales (5/5) Flashcards
(26 cards)
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 and larger groups are included in the superasterids?
Santalales, Caryophyllales
Asterids
What orders and larger groups are included in the Asterids?
Cornales
Ericales
Lamiids
Campanulids
What families are included in the Santalales?
Viscaceae
What suborders are included in the Caryophyllales?
Polygonineae
Caryophyllineae
What families are included in the suborder Polygonineae?
Polygonaceae
Plumbaginaceae
Droseraceae
Nepenthaceae
What families are included in the suborder Caryophyllineae?
Amaranthaceae
Chenopodiaceae
Caryophyllaceae
Nyctaginaceae
Aizoaceae
Montiaceae
Cactaceae
Polygonaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Ocrea
Can have 2 of 6 tepals fused (looks like 5 tepals)
Not all have ocrea, which are fused stipules
From Caryophyllales, in Polygonineae
Eriogonum
What family is it part of an what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Typically umbel-like inflorescences, and they are compound umbels themselves
From Polygonaceae
Plumbaginaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Leaves often in basal rosettes
Flower parts in 5s
Stamens opposite petals
From Caryophyllales, in Polygonineae
Armeria
What family is it part of an what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Scapose inflorescence terminates in a dense head
From Plumbaginaceae
Droseraceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Leaves modified as traps or with glandular hairs; with surface digestive glands
From Caryophyllales, in Polygonineae
Drosera
What family is it part of an what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Leaves with glandular hairs; with surface digestive glands
From Droseraceae
Nepenthaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Expanded leaf base, tendril, and pitchers
From Caryophyllales, in Polygonineae
Nepenthes
What family is it part of an what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Expanded leaf base, tendril, and pitchers
From Nepenthaceae
Amaranthaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Can have reddish stems
Generally small flowers with bracts/bracteoles
Bracteole: a small bract
From Caryophyllales, in Caryophyllineae
Chenopodiaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Surfaces often scaly/powdery
Flowers small, greenish
From Caryophyllales, in Caryophyllineae
Caryophyllaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Leaves opposite, often swollen nodes
Flower parts usually in five, lobing of petals
Unlike Saxifragales, does not have scapes
From Caryophyllales, in Caryophyllineae
Silene
What family is it part of an what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Prominent, ribbed calyx tubes
Petals are actually free
From Caryophyllaceae
Nyctaginaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Tubular calyx, lack of petals
From Caryophyllales, in Caryophyllineae
Aizoaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, usually succulent
From Caryophyllales, in Caryophyllineae
Carpobrotus
What family is it part of an what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Ice plant
Succulent leaves
From Aizoaceae
Montiaceae
What order/larger group is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Flowers typically w/ 2 sepaloid bracts
From Caryophyllales, in Caryophyllineae
