Asteridae

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Asteridae

[‚as·tə′rī‚dē]

(botany)

A large subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the class Magnoliopsida; plants are sympetalous, with unitegmic, tenuinucellate ovules and with the stamens usually as many as, or fewer than, the corolla lobes and alternate with them.

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Keywords Asteridae * Campanulids * Euasteridae * Fossil.

Fossil record and age of the Asteridae

The combination of characters present in this taxon: small pentamerous flowers with cupulate hypanthium ending in a thick presumably nectariferous rim, triangular sepals with a prominent midvein or keel, thin clawed cucullate petals alternating with the sepals, and stamens opposite to the petals is not found in the Solanaceae or even in the Asteridae, but in the Rhamnaceae, a family that is today classified with the Order Rosales in the Rosid clade (APG, 1998, 2003).

The fossil record of the Solanaceae revisited and revised--the fossil record of Rhamnaceae enhanced

A parsimony analysis of the Asteridae sensu lato based on rbcL sequences.

Discordance between nuclear and chloroplast phylogenies in the Heuchera group (Saxifragaceae)

Phylogeny and the evolution of flower symmetry in the Asteridae. Trends in Plant Science 3: 311-317.

The immense diversity of floral monosymmetry and asymmetry across angiosperms

Phylogenetic analysis of the Asteridae based on sequences of 4 genes.

An updated classification of the class Magnoliopsida

have been recorded among the Caryophyllidae and Asteridae, and that the

Invasive marine algae: an ecological perspective

Teil (Spermatophyta, Unterklasse Asteridae) Valerianaceae bis

Geographical distribution of wild Lactuca species (Asteraceae, Lactuceae)

For example, let us accept that the name Asteraceae is to be defined as "the taxon at the rank of family inclusive of the genus Aster:" Let us also assume that the taxonomist, using the name Asteraceae, constructs a cladistic classification from a well-resolved phylogeny for the Asteridae. Under this scenario, the definition of Asteraceae does not indicate to the worker to which dade the name Asteraceae should be applied.