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Austrobaileyales

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Relationships after Qiu et al. (2000)
Containing group: Angiosperms

References

Barkman, T. J., G. Chenery, J. R. McNeal, J. Lyons-Weiler, W. J. Ellisens, G. Moore, A. D. Wolfe, and C. W. dePamphilis. 2000. Independent and combined analyses of sequences from all three genomic compartments converge on the root of flowering plant phylogeny. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 97:13166-13171.

Doyle, J. A. and P. K. Endress. 2000. Morphological phylogenetic analysis of basal angiosperms: Comparison and combination with molecular data. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S121-S153.

Endress, P. K. 2001. The flowers in extant basal angiosperms and inferences on ancestral flowers. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162:1111-1140.

Endress, P. K. and R. Honegger. 1980. The pollen of the Austrobaileyaceae and its phylogenetic significance. Grana 19:177-182.

Friedman, W. E., W. N. Gallup, and J. H. Williams. 2003. Female Gametophyte development in Kadsura: Implications for Schisandraceae, Austrobaileyales, and the early evolution of flowering plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164(5 Suppl.):S293-S305.

Hao G., M. L. Chey , and R. M. K. Saunders. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of the Schisandraceae based on morphology and nuclear ribosomal ITS. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 135: 401-411.

Hao, G., R. M. K. Saunders, and M.-L. Chye. 2000. A phylogenetic analysis of the Illiciaceae based on sequences of internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Plant Systematics and Evolution 223:81-90.

Igersheim, A. and P. K. Endress. 1997. Gynoecium diversity and systematics of the Magnoliales and winteroids. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 124:213-271.

Judd, W. S., C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, P. F. Stevens, and M. J. Donoghue. 2002. Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach. Second Edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA.

Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 1999. The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes. Nature 402:404-407.

Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 2000. Phylogeny of basal angiosperms: Analyses of five genes from three genomes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S3-S27.

Saunders, R. M. K. 1995. Systematics of the genus Illicium L. (Illiciaceae) in Malesia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 117:333-352.

Saunders, R. M. K. 1998. Monograph of Kadsura (Schisandraceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 54. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The American Society of Plant Taxonomists, 106 pp.

Saunders, R. M. K. 2000. Monograph of Schisandra (Schisandraceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 58. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The American Society of Plant Taxonomists. 146 pp.

Saunders, R. M. K. 2001. Schisandraceae. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World 4. Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, 62 pp.

Savolainen, V., M. W. Chase, S. B. Hoot, C. M. Morton, D. E. Soltis, C. Bayer, M. F. Fay, A. Y. De Bruijn, S. Sullivan, and Y. L. Qiu. 2000. Phylogenetics of flowering plants based on combined analysis of plastid atpB and rbcL gene sequences. Systematic Biology 49:306-362.

Smith, A. C. 1947. The families Illiciaceae and Schisandraceae. Sargentia 7:1-224.

Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, M. W. Chase, M. E. Mort, D. C. Albach, M. Zanis, V. Savolainen, W. H. Hahn, S. B. Hoot, M. F. Fay, M. Axtell, S. M. Swensen, L. M. Prince, W. J. Kress, K. C. Nixon, and J. S. Farris. 2000. Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA, rbcL, and atpB sequences. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 133:381-461.

Williams, J. H. and W. E. Friedman. 2004. The four-celled female gametophyte of Illicium (Illiciaceae; Austrobaileyales): implications for understanding the origin and early evolution of monocots, eumagnoliids,and eudicots. American Journal of Botany 91:332-351.

Yamada, T., R. Imaichi, N. Prakash, and M. Kato. 2003. Developmental morphology of ovules and seeds of Austrobaileyales. Australian Journal of Botany 51(5):555-564.

Yang, Z.-R. and Q. Lin. 2005. Comparative morphology of the leaf epidermis in Schisandra (Schisandraceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 148(1):39-56.

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Scientific Name Illicium religiosum
Location Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Skimmia
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2007 autan
Scientific Name Schisandra rubriflora
Location cultivated, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Schisandra rubriflora
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2003 Scott Zona
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