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 Field Maple Acer campestre, in Ebsdorfergrund-Frauenberg, Hesse, Germany
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Acer - Maples |
Aceraceae is a family of flowering plants also called the Maple Family. Acer campestre, Common name Field Maple, is a Maple native to much of Europe, north to southern England (where it Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of Flowering plants whose Seed typically has two embryonic leaves or Cotyledons There Sapindales (pronounced /sæpɪn'deɪliz/ last two syllables just like the word dailies ''Webster's Third New International Dictionary'' p Antoine Laurent de Jussieu ( April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French Botanist, notable as the first to propose A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Acer ( maple) is a Genus of Trees or Shrubs They are variously classified in a family of their own the Aceraceae, or Dipteronia is a Genus of two living and one extinct species regarded in the soapberry family Sapindaceae sensu lato after Angiosperm The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group It contains two to four genera, depending upon the circumscription, of some 120 species of trees and shrubs. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. A tree is a perennial Woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or A shrub or Bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of Woody plant, distinguished from a Tree A common characteristic is that the leaves are opposite, and the fruit a schizocarp. In Botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of the leaves on the stem of a Plant. A schizocarp is a dry Fruit that develops from multiple Carpels When mature it splits up into one-seeded mericarps. [1]
The maples have long been known to be closely related to the family Sapindaceae. Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of Flowering plants in the order Sapindales. Several taxonomists (including the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) now include both the Aceraceae and the Hippocastanaceae in the Sapindaceae. Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification The word comes from the Greek, taxis (meaning 'order' 'arrangement' and, nomos The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to two international groups of systematic botanists who came together to try to establish a consensus view of the Hippocastanaceae is the name given to a small group of Trees and Shrubs, when this group is treated as a familiy Recent research (Harrington et al. 2005[2]) has shown that while both Aceraceae and Hippocastanaceae are monophyletic in themselves, their removal from Sapindaceae sensu lato would leave Sapindaceae sensu stricto as a paraphyletic group, particularly with reference to the genus Xanthoceras. In Phylogenetics, a group of organisms is said to be paraphyletic if the group contains its most recent common ancestor but does not contain all Xanthoceras sorbifolium ( Yellowhorn) the sole species in the genus Xanthoceras, is a Flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae
References
- ^ Aceraceae in L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards), The families of flowering plants.
- ^ Harrington, M. G. , Edwards, K. J. , Johnson, S. A. , Chase, M. W. , & Gadek, P. A. (2005). Phylogenetic inference in Sapindaceae sensu lato using plastid matK and rbcL DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 30: 366-382. Abstract.
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