Asterales
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Asterales | |
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Sunflower , Helianthus annuus
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Clade: | Campanulids
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Order: | Asterales Link[1] |
Families | |
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Asterales ().
The order is cosmopolitan (plants found throughout most of the world including desert and frigid zones), and includes mostly herbaceous species, although a small number of trees (such as the Lobelia deckenii, the giant lobelia, and Dendrosenecio, giant groundsels) and shrubs are also present.
Asterales are organisms that seem to have evolved from one common
Taxonomy
The name and order Asterales is botanically venerable, dating back to at least 1926 in the
The order Asterales currently includes 11 families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25,000 species, and the Campanulaceae (bellflowers), with about 2,000 species. The remaining families count together for less than 1500 species. The two large families are cosmopolitan, with many of their species found in the Northern Hemisphere, and the smaller families are usually confined to Australia and the adjacent areas, or sometimes South America.
Only the Asteraceae have composite flower heads; the other families do not, but share other characteristics such as storage of inulin that define the 11 families as more closely related to each other than to other plant families or orders such as the rosids.
The phylogenetic tree according to APG III for the Campanulid clade is as below.[4]
Campanulid clade (similar to Euasterids II in APG II)
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Phylogeny
Although most extant species of Asteraceae are herbaceous, the examination of the basal members in the family suggests that the common ancestor of the family was an arborescent plant, a tree or shrub, perhaps adapted to dry conditions, radiating from South America. Less can be said about the Asterales themselves with certainty, although since several families in Asterales contain trees, the ancestral member is most likely to have been a tree or shrub.
Because all clades are represented in the Southern Hemisphere but many not in the Northern Hemisphere, it is natural to conjecture that there is a common southern origin to them. Asterales are
Asterales contain about 14% of
Fossil evidence of the Asterales is rare and belongs to rather recent epochs, so the precise estimation of the order's age is quite difficult. An Oligocene (34 – 23 Mya) pollen is known for Asteraceae and Goodeniaceae, and seeds from Oligocene and Miocene (23 – 5.3 Mya) are known for Menyanthaceae and Campanulaceae respectively.[5]
Biogeography
The core Asterales are Stylidiaceae (six genera), APA clade (Alseuosmiaceae, Phellinaceae and Argophyllaceae, together seven genera), MGCA clade (Menyanthaceae, Goodeniaceae, Calyceraceae, in total twenty genera), and Asteraceae (about sixteen hundred genera). Other Asterales are Rousseaceae (four genera), Campanulaceae (eighty-four genera) and Pentaphragmataceae (one genus).
All Asterales families are represented in the Southern Hemisphere; however, Asteraceae and Campanulaceae are cosmopolitan and Menyanthaceae nearly so.[6]
Uses
The Asterales, by dint of being a super-set of the family Asteraceae, include some species grown for food, including the
Many are also used as spices and traditional medicines.Asterales are common plants and have many known uses. For example,
References
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- ISBN 978-0-88192-627-9. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Kubitzki, K. (1990). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants, Eudicots: Asterales. Springer. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Angiosperm Phylogeny Website". Mobot.org. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
- PMID 9256457.
- ISBN 978-3-9501754-3-1. Archived(PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ "A Brief Overview of the Compositae, Lettuce and Sunflower". 28 October 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-59339-492-9. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ^ Wondrich, David (5 August 2008). "The Five Best Bottles of Absinthe". Esquire.
Further reading
- W. S. Judd, C. S. Campbell, E. A. Kellogg, P. F. Stevens, M. J. Donoghue (2002). Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach, 2nd edition. pp. 476–486 (Asterales). Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-87893-403-0.
- Lindley, John (1833). Nixus plantarum (in Spanish). London: Apud Ridgway et Filios. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- Smissen, Rob D. (2003). "Asterales (Sunflower)". eLS. American Cancer Society. ISBN 0470016175.
- Berry, Paul E. (21 June 2013). "Asterales | plant order". Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- "Definition of ASTERALES". Merriam Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Retrieved 14 April 2020.