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PBIO 450 Lecture Notes - Asteridae -- Spring 1999 |
 | | The core families are the Buddlejaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Globulariaceae, Myoporaceae, Gesneriaceae, Acanthaceae, Pedaliaceae, Bignoniaceae and the Lentibulariaceae. |
 | | The Buddlejaceae general lack well defined stipules, however, and possesses intraxylary phloem, both features that firmly removes the taxon from that order. |
 | | The supposed relationship of the Oleaceae with the Buddlejaceae, and thus the placement of both in the same order, can be argued either way citing numerous sources of evidence (see Takhtajan, 1997: 450). |
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