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Asterales

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Asterales is an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants that includes the large family Asteraceae (or Compositae) known for composite flowers made of florets, and ten families related to the Asteraceae. [1]

61 relations: Absinthe, Adaptation, Alseuosmiaceae, Ancestor, APG II system, APG III system, Apiales, Aquifoliales, Argophyllaceae, Artemisia (genus), Asteraceae, Asterids, Bruniales, Calyceraceae, Campanulaceae, Chicory, Clade, Cosmopolitan distribution, Cretaceous, Cronquist system, Dendrosenecio, Dicotyledon, Dipsacales, Escalloniaceae, Esquire (magazine), Eudicots, Fabaceae, Family (biology), Flowering plant, Genus, Gondwana, Goodeniaceae, Gynoecium, Helianthus, Herbaceous plant, Hutchinson system, Inulin, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, John Lindley, Lobelia deckenii, Menyanthaceae, Miocene, Morphology (biology), Oligocene, Oligosaccharide, Order (biology), Paracryphiaceae, Pentaphragma, Phelline, Poales, ..., Pollination, Pyrethrum, Rolf Dahlgren, Rosids, Rousseaceae, Sagebrush, Shrub, Stamen, Starch, Stylidiaceae, Synapomorphy and apomorphy. Expand index (11 more) »

Absinthe

Absinthe is historically described as a distilled, highly alcoholic (45–74% ABV / 90–148 U.S. proof) beverage.

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Adaptation

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.

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Alseuosmiaceae

Alseuosmiaceae is a plant family of the order Asterales found in Australia, New Caledonia, and New Zealand.

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Ancestor

An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth).

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APG II system

The APG II system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II system) of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

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APG III system

The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).

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Apiales

The Apiales are an order of flowering plants.

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Aquifoliales

The Aquifoliales are an order of flowering plants, including the Aquifoliaceae (or holly) family, and also the Helwingiaceae (2-5 species of temperate Asian shrubs) and the Phyllonomaceae (4 species of Central American trees and shrubs).

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Argophyllaceae

Argophyllaceae is a family of shrubs or small trees belonging to the order Asterales.

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Artemisia (genus)

Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants with between 200 and 400 species belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae.

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Asteraceae

Asteraceae or Compositae (commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite,Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, p. 275 or sunflower family) is a very large and widespread family of flowering plants (Angiospermae).

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Asterids

In the APG IV system (2016) for the classification of flowering plants, the name asterids denotes a clade (a monophyletic group).

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Bruniales

Bruniales is a valid botanic name at the rank of order.

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Calyceraceae

Calyceraceae is a plant family in the order Asterales.

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Campanulaceae

The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky non-toxic sap.

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Chicory

Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a taxon is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution if its range extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Cronquist system

The Cronquist system is a taxonomic classification system of flowering plants.

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Dendrosenecio

Dendrosenecio is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family.

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Dicotyledon

The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or more rarely dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided.

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Dipsacales

The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.

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Escalloniaceae

Escalloniaceae is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 130 species in seven genera.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Gondwana

Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).

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Goodeniaceae

Goodeniaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Asterales.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Helianthus

Helianthus or sunflower is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species Flora of North America.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.

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Hutchinson system

A system of plant taxonomy by John Hutchinson, the Hutchinson system, was published as The families of flowering plants, arranged according to a new system based on their probable phylogeny (two volumes) in three editions; 1st edition 1926–1934; 2nd edition 1959; 3rd edition, 1973.

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Inulin

Inulins are a group of naturally occurring polysaccharides produced by many types of plants, industrially most often extracted from chicory.

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Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (2 February 1767 – 1 January 1851) was a German naturalist and botanist.

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John Lindley

John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.

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Lobelia deckenii

Lobelia deckenii (syn. Lobelia keniensis) is a species of giant lobelia of the mountains of East Africa.

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Menyanthaceae

Menyanthaceae is a family of aquatic and wetland plants in the order Asterales.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Oligosaccharide

An oligosaccharide (from the Greek ὀλίγος olígos, "a few", and σάκχαρ sácchar, "sugar") is a saccharide polymer containing a small number (typically three to ten) of monosaccharides (simple sugars).

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Order (biology)

In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.

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Paracryphiaceae

The Paracryphiaceae are a family of woody shrubs and trees native to Australia, southeast Asia, and New Caledonia.

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Pentaphragma

Pentaphragma is a genus of flowering plants.

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Phelline

Phelline is a genus of shrubs and the sole member of the family Phellinaceae, one of the three families of flowering plants that are endemic to New Caledonia.

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Poales

The Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges.

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Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, enabling later fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind.

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Pyrethrum

Pyrethrum was a genus of several Old World plants now classified as Chrysanthemum or Tanacetum (e.g., C. coccineum) which are cultivated as ornamentals for their showy flower heads.

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Rolf Dahlgren

Rolf Martin Theodor Dahlgren (7 July 1932 – 14 February 1987) was a Swedish-Danish botanist, professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1973 to his death.

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Rosids

The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.

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Rousseaceae

Rousseaceae is a plant family in the order Asterales containing trees and shrubs.

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Sagebrush

Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceus species of plants in the genus Artemisia.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Stamen

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Starch

Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.

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Stylidiaceae

The family Stylidiaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants.

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Synapomorphy and apomorphy

In phylogenetics, apomorphy and synapomorphy refer to derived characters of a clade – characters or traits that are derived from ancestral characters over evolutionary history.

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Asteranae, Asteriflorae.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterales

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