RANUNCULIDS & OTHER LOWER EUDICOTS |
Eudicots (or tricolpates) — what are they?
Survey of BasalEudicots - see phylogeny of Eudicots
[see comparison of Cronquist vs. APG system]
Ranunculids (order Ranunculales): characteristics and representatives
Aconitum (monks'hood)
Actaea (red & white baneberry)
Anemone (anemones & pasque flower)
Anemonella (rue anemone)
Aquilegia (columbine)
Caltha palustris (marsh marigold)
Clematis (virgin's bower, clematis)
Coptis (goldthread)
Delphinium (larkspur)
Hepatica (hepatic, liverleaf)
Hydrastis (goldenseal)
Isopyrum (false rue anemone)
Ranunculus (buttercups)
Thalictrum (meadow-rue)Berberis (barberry)
Podophyllum (may-apple, mandrake)
Jeffersonia (twinleaf)
Caulophyllum (blue cohosh)Sanguinaria (bloodroot)
Papaver (poppy)
Chelidonium (celandine)
Eschscholzia (California poppy)Corydalis (corydalis, harlequin)
Dicentra (Dutch man's breeches, squirrel corn)
Proteales - other basal eudicots
Banksia
Nelumbo lutea (American lotus, lotus lily)
Platanaceae (sycamore family)
Monoecious
Apocarpic
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore)
