F Bruce Sampson, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Published online: February 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003699
The order Magnoliales is a member of the most basal sub-class of angiosperms, the Magnoliidae, and is made up of three families, the relatively large family Magnoliaceae and two small families, Himantandraceae and Degeneriaceae.
Keywords: Magnoliaceae; Degeneriaceae; Magnolia; Magnoliidae; Degeneria; Liriodendron; Galbulimima; primitive pollen
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Figure 1. Flower of Liriodendron tulipifera. Natural size.
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Figure 2. A pollen grain of Degeneria vitiensis. Bar, 10 m.
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Figure 3. Flower and foliage of Galbulimima baccata from Queensland, Australia. Natural size. Photo courtesy of Professor P. K. Endress, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
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Figure 4. A pollen grain of Galbulimima baccata. Bar, 10 m.
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| Further Reading | |
| book Endress PK (1993) "Himantandraceae". In: Kubitzki K et al. (eds) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol. 2. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. | |
| book Kubitzki K (1993) "Degeneriaceae". In: Kubitzki K et al. (eds) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol. 2. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. | |
| Miller JM (1989) The archaic flowering plant family Degeneriaceae: its bearing on an old enigma. National Geographic Research 5: 218–231. | |
| book Nooteboom HP (1993) "Magnoliaceae". In: Kubitzki K et al. (eds) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, 2 Berlin: Springer-Verlag. | |
| Sampson FB (2000) Pollen diversity in some modern magnoliids. International Journal of Plant Science 161 (supplement): S193–S210. | |
| Thien LB (1974) Floral biology of Magnolia. American Journal of Botany 61: 1037–1045. | |
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