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| | PBIO 450 Lecture Notes - Magnoliidae -- Spring 1999 |
 | | While both Takhtajan (1997) and Reveal (1997) adopted several additional orders and divide up a few of the families, the membership of the complex is not particularly different: Lardizabalaceae, Sargentodoxaceae, Menispermaceae, Nandinaceae, Berberidaceae, Ranzaniaceae, Podophyllaceae, Ranunculaceae, Kingdoniaceae, Circaeasteraceae, Hydrastidaceae, Papaveraceae, Pteridophyllaceae, Hypecoaceae and Fumariaceae (fide Takhtajan). |
 | | All of these families form a distinct core with Cronquist defining the Ranunculales and Papaverales as those basically terrestrial members of the Magnoliidae without ethereal oil cells and with triaperaturate pollen. |
 | | His distinction between Ranunculales and Papaverales was based on the number of sepals (more than two in the former, only 2 in the latter) and the generally apocarpous (Ranunculales) versus syncarpous (Papaverales) pistil. |
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