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| | MAGNOLIIDAE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The Magnoliidae consist of 8 orders, 39 families, and approximately 12,000 species, with three of the orders-Laurales, Magnoliales, and Ranunculales-having over two thirds of the species. |
 | | The following 7 traits are characteristic of the families listed below, but not necessarily of all Magnoliidae. |
 | | Some exceptions to the above are mentioned in the following list of family characteristics (i.e., those exceptions that tend to be true of entire families rather than of scattered genera). |
| www.bsu.edu /classes/badger/BOT440/lectures/families/magnoliidae.htm (568 words) |
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