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Chloranthaceae

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Chloranthus japonicus
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Relationships after Eklund et al. 2004.
Containing group: Angiosperms

References

Carlquist, S. 1987. Presence of vessels in wood of Sarcandra (Chloranthaceae): comments on vessel origins in angiosperms. American Journal of Botany 74:1765-1771.

Carlquist, S. 1992. Wood anatomy and stem of Chloranthus: summary of wood anatomy of Chloranthaceae, with comments on relationships, vessellessness, and the origin of Monocotyledons. IAWA Bulletin II 13:3-16

Crane, P. R., E. M. Friis, and K. R. Pedersen. 1989. Reproductive structure and function in Cretaceous Chloranthaceae. Plant Systematics & Evolution 156:211-226.

Doyle, J. A., H. Eklund, and P. S. Herendeen. 2003. Floral evolution in Chloranthaceae: Implications of a morphological phylogenetic analysis. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164 (5):S365-S382.

Eklund, H., J. A. Doyle, and P. S. Herendeen. 2004. Morphological phylogenetic analysis of living and fossil Chloranthaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165 (1): 107-151.

Eklund, H., E. M. Friis, and K. R. Pedersen. 1997. Chloranthaceous floral structures from the Late Cretaceous of Sweden. Plant Systematics and Evolution 207:13-42.

Endress, P. K. 1987. The Chloranthaceae: reproductive structures and phylogenetic position. Botanische Jahrbücher Systematik 109:153-226.

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

Friis, E. M., P. R. Crane, and K. R. Pedersen. 1986. Floral evidence for Cretaceous chloranthoid angiosperms. Nature 320:163-164.

Kong, H. Z. 2000. Karyotypes of Sarcandra Gardn. and Chloranthus Swartz (Chloranthaceae) from China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 133:327-342.

Kong, H. Z. 2001. Comparative morphology of leaf epidermis in the Chloranthaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 136:279-294.

Kong, H. Z., A. M. Lu, and P. K. Endress. 2002. Floral organogenesis of Chloranthus sessilifolius, with special emphasis on the morphological nature of the androecium of Chloranthus (Chloranthaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 232:181-188.

Okada, H. 1995. Karyological studies of four genera of the Chloranthaceae. Plant Systematics & Evolution 195:177-185.

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.

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.

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.

Todzia, C. A. 1993. Chloranthaceae. Pages 197-200 in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. 2. Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid, and Caryophyllid Families. K. Kubitzki, J. G. Rohwer, and V. Bittrich, eds. New York: Springer.

Todzia, C. A. and R. C. Keating. 1991. Leaf architecture of Chloranthaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 78:476-496.

von Balthazar, M. and P. K. Endress. 1999. Floral bract function, flowering process and breeding systems of Sarcandra and Chloranthus (Chloranthaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 218:161-178.

Yamada, T., H. Tobe, R. Imaichi, and M. Kato. 2001. Developmental morphology of the ovules of Amborella trichopoda (Amborellaceae) and Chloranthus serratus (Chloranthaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 137:277-290.

Zhang, L. B. and S. Renner. 2003. The deepest splits in Chloranthaceae as resolved by chloroplast sequences. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164 (5):S383-S392.

Information on the Internet

Deep Time Project: Chloranthaceae
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Scientific Name Sarcandra glabra
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Body Part fruits
Source Sarcandra glabra
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License - Version 2.0.
Copyright © 2004 Juni A.
Chloranthus japonicus
Scientific Name Chloranthus japonicus
Location Vityaz inlet, Gamov Peninsula, Khasansky distr., Primorsky Territory (Russian Federation)
Source Collection CalPhotos
Copyright © 2001
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