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Petrosaviales
| Description | Petrosaviaceae is a family of flowering plants belonging to a monotypic order, Petrosaviales. Petrosaviales are monocots, and are grouped within the lilioid monocots. Petrosaviales are a very small order (one family, two genera and four species were accepted in 2016) of photosynthetic (Japonolirion) and rare leafless achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic plants (Petrosavia) found in dark montane rainforests in Japan, China, Southeast Asia and Borneo. They are characterised by having bracteate racemes, pedicellate flowers, six persistent tepals, septal nectaries, three almost distinct carpels, simultaneous microsporogenesis, monosulcate pollen, and follicular fruit. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrosaviales, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||
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| Rank | order | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Liliopsida : Petrosaviales | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Petrosaviales | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Petrosaviales | ||||||||||
| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrosaviales |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Petrosaviaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
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!
