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Ranunculales

[rə‚nəŋ·kyə′lā·lēz]
(botany)
An order of dicotyledons in the subclass Magnoliidae characterized by its mostly separate carpels, triaperturate pollen, herbaceous or only secondarily woody habit, and frequently numerous stamens.
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Teixeiraea lusitanica, a new fossil flower from the early Cretaceous of Portugal with affinities to Ranunculales. Plant Systematics and Evolution 255: 55-75.
Orbicules in flowering plants: a phylogenetic perspective on their form and function
Floral morphogenesis in Euptelea (Eupteleaceae, Ranunculales).
The immense diversity of floral monosymmetry and asymmetry across angiosperms
The family Berberidaceae (Ranunculales) consists of 15 genera and more than 650 species.
8), and palmately-compound leaves in other members of the order Ranunculales (e.g.
In pea (and close relatives within legumes; see Champagne et al., 2007), UN1FOLIATA (UN1), a LEAFY/FLORICAULA ortholog, regulates compound leaf development (Hofer et al., 1997), whereas, in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae; Ranunculales), FRUITFULL, an APETALA1/FRUITFULL homolog, has been co-opted to promote leaf complexity (Pabon-Mora, 2012).
Leaf development, metamorphic heteroblasty and heterophylly in Berberis s. l
This problem is also present in some more basal eudicots, such as Ranunculales (Endress, 1995), Trochodendraceae (Endress, 1986), Buxaceae (von Balthazar & Endress, 2002), and Myrothamnaceae (Jager Zurn, 1966).
Morphology and angiosperm systematics in the Molecular era
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