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Gunnerales
| Description | The Gunnerales are an order of flowering plants. In the APG III system (2009) and APG IV system (2016) it contains two genera: Gunnera (in family Gunneraceae) and Myrothamnus (in family Myrothamnaceae). In the Cronquist system (1981), the Gunneraceae were in the Haloragales and Myrothamnaceae in the Hamamelidales.DNA analysis was definitive, but the grouping of the two families was a surprise, given their very dissimilar morphologies. In Cronquist's old system (1981, 1988), and Takhtajan's (1997), the Gunneraceae were in the Rosidae, and the Myrothamnaceae were in the Hamamelids.In modern classification systems such as APG III and APG IV this order was the first to derive from the core eudicots. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnerales, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Magnoliopsida : Gunnerales | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Plantae : Spermatophyta : Magnoliopsida : Gunnerales | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Gunnerales | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (100%) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2009. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2):105-121 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Gunneraordningen | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnerales |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Gunneraceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 48.6 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Myrothamnaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1992 | Gunnerales Takhtajan |
| 2008 | Gunnerales Taylor et al. p. 1029 |
| 2011 | Gunnerales Jud |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
