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Trochodendrales

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Trochodendrales [‚träk·ō·den′drā·lēz]
(botany)
An order of dicotyledonous trees in the subclass Hamamelidae characterized by primitively vesselless wood and unique, elongate, often branched idioblasts in the leaves.


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1835 (C; 34/154) Altingiales Doweld, 1998 Cercidiphyllales Hu ex Reveal, 1993 Daphniphyllales Pulle ex Cronquist, 1981 Trochodendrales Takht.
Some authors have indeed suggested a relationship between Platanaceae and the ancestors of the rosid subclass (Hickey & Wolfe, 1975; Crane, 1989; Endress, 1993a); others derive Platanus within the Hamamelidaceae (Schwarzwalder & Dilcher, 1991) or near basal Hamamelids such as the Trochodendrales (Thorne, 1992; Chase et al.
Eupteleaceae were long regarded as a member of Trochodendrales or Hamamelidales in hamamelidids (e.
 
 
 
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