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Gunneraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its Gunnerales is an order of Flowering plants. In the APG II system (2003 it contains two genera Gunnera and Myrothamnus Carl Daniel Friedrich Meissner ( 1 November 1800 – 2 May 1874) was a Swiss Botanist. A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN and if the plant is a Cultigen, the In Biological classification, family ( Latin The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.
The APG II system, of 2003, also recognizes this family and assigns it to the order Gunnerales in the clade core eudicots. Eudicots and Eudicotyledons are terms introduced by Doyle & Hotton (1991 to refer to a group of Flowering plants that had been called "tricolpates" or "non-Magnoliid The family then consists of one or two genera, Gunnera and, optionally, Myrothamnus. Gunnera is a genus of Herbaceous Flowering plants some of them gigantic Myrothamnus is the Botanical name of a Genus of Flowering plants, consisting of two species of small Xerophytic Shrubs The latter may also be segregated as a separate family, Myrothamnaceae. Myrothamnaceae is the Botanical name for a family of Flowering plants. This represents a change from the APG system, of 1998, which firmly recognized two separate families, unplaced as to order.
External links
- Gunneraceae in L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval. Version: 21 May 2006. http://delta-intkey.com
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- links at CSDL
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