Garryales

Peter F Stevens, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Published online: July 2003

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003731

Garryales are a small order of asterid I families with rather small flowers, sister to the usually larger-flowered and much more diverse and speciose Lamiales, Gentianales and Solanales.

Keywords: garryaceae; aucubaceae; eucommiaceae; icacinaceae; oncothecaceae; asterid I

 Further Reading
    Karehed J (2001) Multiple origins of the tropical tree family Icacinaceae. American Journal of Botany 88: 2259–2274.
    book Liston A (2003) "Garryaceae". Kubitzki K The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
    other Stevens PF (2001 onwards) Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. ePath [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/]

Related Sub-Topics:

Plant Development | Diversification of Plants and Animals | Biogeography and Macroecology | Mutualism and Symbiosis | Life History and Reproduction | Plant Evolution | Plant Ecology
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Stevens, Peter F(Jul 2003) Garryales. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003731]