More recent systems have recognised their close relationship to the borage family, boraginaceae, initially by placing. Ginseng is a highly valued medicinal plant belonging to the family araliaceae genus panax helms, 2004. Cupressaceae, the cypress family order pinales, 30 genera with 3 species of evergreen ornamental and timber shrubs and trees, distributed throughout the world. Worldwide, the traditional waterleaf family includes about 20 genera and 270 species. Many flowers from the aster family are cultivated as ornamentals, including marigold, chrysanthemum, calendula, and zinnia.
In includes 320 genera and 2,000 species of world wide distribution, but mostly confined to tropics and subtropics. There are an equal number or twice as many stamens as petals. A revision of the genus bolusafra tribe phaseoleae, fabaceae a. Although most asteraceae are herbaceous, some family members have structural. Six species are recognized with correct names and new synonyms established.
The traditional taxodium family taxodiaceae contains ten genera and 16 species of conebearing trees native to north america, asia and tasmania. Box 524, auckland park 2006, johannesburg, south africa. Alternate simple or compound leaves, often with wide central vein. Uiuc weed science plant families fall 2014 19 terms. Willowherb family, onagraceae the willowherb family is comprised of 43 genera made up of over 700 known species that can be found in different parts of the world. The leaves of these plants are opposite or whorled and usually paired or in threes. Characteristics in an exclosure and in plantations of eucalyptus globulus and cupressus lusitanica in northern ethiopia abrham abiyu 1, mulugeta lemenih2, georg gratzer, raf aerts3, demel teketay4, and gerhard glatzel1 corresponding author. Characteristic features and economic importance of family.
Metrosideros polymorpha myrtaceae hear species info. Cupressaceae cypress family cupressaceae belong to the gymnosperm group along with the pinaceae pine family, taxaceae yew family, and taxodiaceae redwood family all needleleaved, conebearing trees. Most of them live in seas and oceans and few live in fresh water, they live individually solitary or in colonies attached to rocks, they are immobile, it is simple structured, its shapes are varied where it may be tubular or vaseshaped. Rapid identification of asteraceae plants with improved. Perhaps the most unique of these habitats are ephemeral bodies of water that are home to communities characterized by. The family apiaceae also throws some light on the origin of sympetalous advanced families like rubiaceae and asteraceae compositae. Classification for kingdom plantae down to family cupressaceae. The name is derived from the greek roots nemeaning not and penthos meaning sorrow or grief. However, recent reevaluation has indicated that the two species may be equally shade tolerant niinemets and. Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution.
Seed size, lifespan and germination date as coadapted features of plant life history. Evening primrose family the delicate flowers of this family have regular, bisexual flowers with 4 separate sepals and 4 separate petals rarely 2, 3 or 5 of each. Many legumes have characteristic flowers and fruits. The nepenthaceae is a monotypic family of tropical carnivorous plants containing about 120 species in the single genus nepenthes.
The apocynaceae family plants have a variety of traditional uses, and it has practiced for a long time. Lophothalieae descriptive name ragged tufts features plants dark red of tubular terete main branches axes with smaller side branches ending in delicate pink tufts special requirements view microscopically to find. The family is distributed worldwide except for antarctica but is especially diverse in the tropical and subtropical regions of north america, the andes, eastern brazil, southern. Because of their scalelike leaves, seed cones and other characteristics, some botanists have consolidated the taxodiaceae with the. Gmelina arborea roxb is one of the important medicinal plants most widely propagated and cultivated species of the family verbenaceae. Dhup, white dhup india, kedondong malaya, merdongdong indonesia, pagsahingin philippines, kaunicinakaunigai fiji islands. The following pages provide basic familiy characteristics for most of the families covered in the lab. Convergence of leaf display and photosynthetic characteristics of understory abies amabilis and tsuga heterophylla in an oldgrowth forest in southwestern washington state, usa hiroaki ishii,1,2 kenichi yoshimura1 and akira mori3, 1 graduate school of agricultural science. In india 332 species belonging to 35 genera are found. Phylogeny group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants.
For family names, the modern tendency in taxonomy is to use the name of a familiar plant in a certain family and to add the suffix aceae to the name. Asteraceae or compositae is a very large and widespread family of flowering plants. We do not intend the plant list to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. Watson2 introduction wildolive is a native north american evergreen tree which reaches 20 feet in height with a 10 to 15foot spread fig. This view is proved on the fact that in both apiaceae and rubiaceae there is tendency of flowers to be aggregated into umbellate heads, reduction of calyx lobes, epigyny, pendulous ovule, bicarpellary ovary. Despite the dramatic loss of mesophytic habitat, it has a welldeveloped wetland flora, with many endemic species. General characteristics of nematodes flashcards quizlet. Hydrophylloideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family boraginaceae. Flowers have five petals in a tube like a potato flower. The plant list includes a further 147 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family burseraceae. It is commonly known as kashmarya and one of the herbs mentioned in all ancient scriptures of ayurveda. The nomenclatural revision of 51 names previously published, combined or synonymyzed under the genus nastanthus calyceraceae is presented.
Zoantharia associated with the gorgonian callogorgia verticillata cnidaria. Cordia boissieri wildolive environmental horticulture. Pdf the relevance of asteraceae family plants in most of. Asteraceae, mutisieae botanical society of america. Aizoaceae figmarigold family succulent herbs, rarely spiny leaves opposite or alternate, simple and entire, epidermis with large bladderlike cells. A revision of the genus bolusafra tribe phaseoleae, fabaceae. It is a beautiful fast growing avenue tree that grows throughout india. Araliaceae ginseng family hawaiian plants and tropical.
Cupressaceae the cypress family by andrew larson genera 3 main genera within cupressaceae chamaecyparis chamaecyparis thyoides. The bark of mature trees is commonly orange to red brown and of stringy texture. Traditionally, and under the cronquist system, they were given family rank under the name hydrophyllaceae, and treated as part of the order solanales. They have tap root system and the roots are branched. Commonly 80 to 100 ft in height with trunk diameters of 2 to 3 ft. The tops of the leaves do not contain chloroplasts and function as a skylight, the interior of the leaf is filled with transparent cells. Plants from asteraceae family are widely used as herbal medicines and food ingredients, especially in asian area. It consists of 2 rarely 4 united carpels syncarpous, forming a single chamber. Throughout southeastern asia and reaching northward to taiwan. The family asclepiadaceae is commonly known as milk weed family. The family includes 2730 genera 17 monotypic, which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 140 species in total. A large plant family of the order asterales, subclass asteridae, class magnoliopsida. The fabaceae or leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a. The asteraceae compositae, alternate name with its approximately 1,620 genera and more than 23,600 species is the largest family of flowering plants stevens, 2001.
This hawaiian endemic species has leaves and leaflets that quake like aspen for the same reason, i. Like other members of the borage family, the plants are often hairy. They are monoecious, subdioecious or rarely dioecious trees and shrubs up to 116 m 381 ft tall. Araliaceae ginseng family plants in the mainly tropical and subtropical ginseng family araliaceae are perennial trees, shrubs, lianas, and rarely herbs with simple, pinnately or palmately compound leaves, radially symmetric flowers, and fleshy fruit in the form of a berry, drupe, or pome. Only the orchid family is larger, but it is mostly restricted to the tropics. Pdf paedomorphosis, secondary woodiness, and insular. It includes the plants that are normally cultivated for ornamental flowers as well as for oil value. Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of compositae pdf. Previous analyses found evidence for an ancient duplication or possibly triplication in the early evolutionary history of the family. Species description or overview metrosideros polymorpha information from native plants hawaii information about metrosideros polymorphaincluding details regarding plant, flower, and leaf characteristics. The family is divided into three subfamilies and a number of tribes. Field characteristics of common plant families in new mexico. Vegetable plantvegetable plant families and page f their.
In some, only the tops of the leaves are above ground. They are native primarily to tropical america, but a few species occur in africa and asia. The distinguishing characteristic of asteraceae is their inflorescence, a type of. Like many other fl owering plants, members of the compositae asteraceae have a polyploid ancestry. Australia has seen widespread rainforest replaced with deserts, savannah and sclerophyll biomes since the eocene, in response to global cooling. Until the early 20th century, these were nearly all included in the genus. They include about 650 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees in 17 genera. The family is divided into five subfamilies, of which two, sesuvioideae and tetragonioideae, are represented by native species in china.
It matures as a capsule with a variable number of seeds. It was first published in 1737 by linnaeus and refers to homers use of the name nepenthe in the odyssey. About the classification report about the classification download. The nomenclature of nastanthus ventosus, nastanthus scapigerus and nastanthus compactus is updated, giving a total of 45 synonyms. Asteraceae compositae the asteraceae are herbs, shrubs, or less commonly trees and are arguably the largest family of flowering plants, comprising about 1,100 genera and 20,000 species that are characterized by having the flowers reduced and organized into an involucrate pseudanthium in the form of a head or capitulum. Many members of the subfamilies mesembryanthemoideae and ruschioideae are ornamentals and are in cultivation worldwide. The seeds of these tress are usually exposed, and not enclosed by a fruit structure like a flowering plant, hence the name gymnosperm. Note the palmately compound leaf, 5merous flowers, umbellate inflorescence and the calyx that forms a rim with minute teeth around the summit of the inferior ovary cheirodendron platyphyllum, olapa. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names. It is the largest family of dicotyledons, comprising 950 genera and 20,000 species, out of which 697 species occur in india. Species range from trees and bushes to herbstemmed plants. Plant family descriptions, plant family descriptions 62 terms.
Apiaceae umbelliferae san xing ke she menglan sheh menglan1, pu fading pu fating2, pan zehui 1. Asteraceae, the aster, daisy, or composite family of the floweringplant order asterales. Superior ovary that forms a capsule or a plump berry. The relevance of asteraceae family plants in most of the neuropsychiatric disorders treatment article pdf available in international journal of phytomedicine 81 january 2016 with 872 reads. Classification for kingdom plantae down to family hydrophyllaceae. Creeping juniper defining characteristics coniferous gymnosperms trees or shrubs common habitats.
With more than 1,620 genera and 23,600 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed throughout the world, asteraceae is one of the largest plant families. Paedomorphic characteristics are often found in insular woody species, a fact that has. It is hollow and its wall is supported with a skeleton of spicules, fibres or of both and contains many pores and. Members of the family have leaves that alternate along the stem and are composed of many leaflets, solitary or clustered flowers, and fleshy fruits. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The name ginseng derives from the chinese words jen sheng, which means manherb, and panax, which means all healing, expressing the traditional belief that ginseng has characteristics that can cure. Pdf the related concepts of paedomorphosis in the secondary xylem, insular. Pimenov5 herbs, annual or perennial, rarely woody at base. In this way the family name asteraceae is made up by using the name aster and adding aceae.
In recent decades, electronic nose enose has been studied as an alternative approach. Burseraceae, family of flowering plants in the order sapindales, composed of about 16 genera of resinous trees and shrubs. Reconstructing the age and historical biogeography of the. Start studying general characteristics of nematodes. They are world wide in distribution and abundant in tropics and in cold arctic or alpines regions. Sunflower or aster family lettuce, artichoke, calendula, zinnia, marigold, sunflower. The family is widespread, occurring on every continent from boreal to tropical regions the family includes a number of popular garden plants, including evening primroses and fuchsias fuchsia. Pdf diasporespotential or real power of wild plants. General characteristics of kingdom animalia phylum.
The onagraceae are a family of flowering plants known as the willowherb family or evening primrose family. Join our friendly community that shares tips and ideas for gardens, along with seeds and plants. Biol 474 plant family descriptions alaska geobotany center. Family tends to be the highest taxonomic level at which characters useful to genus and species identification are.
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