Magnoliaceae
Magnoliaceae Juss., Gen. Pl. 280. 1789. nom. cons. 'Magnolia Family'
Salient Features
Members are either trees or shrubs.
Leaves alternate, simple, with caducous stipule.
Flowers usually larges, solitary with numerous, spirally arranged floral parts.
Perianth gradually passing from outer sepaloid tepals to inner petaloid tepals.
Stamens many, laminar.
Carpels many, free, maturing in to an aggregate of follicles or samara or a syncarp.
At maturity seeds are often suspended by a slender funiculus.
Diversity:
World- 6 genera, 250 species (The Plant List 2013); 2 genera, 294 species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016); 2 genera, 221 species (Mabberley 2017); 2 genera, 314 species (Roskov et al. 2021)
India - 3 genera, 24 species (Karthikeyan 2000); 2 genera, 33 species (BSI, 2021)
Indian Himalaya- 2 genera, 25 species (Singh et al. 2019)
Uttarakhand - 1 genus, 5 species (Pusalkar & Srivastava 2018)
General Characters:
Magnoliaceae in Watson & Dallwitz (1992 onwards)
Magnoliaceae in POWO 2021 (Plants of the World Online)
Magnoliaceae in Wikipedia
Systematic Position of Family in Different Systems of Classifications:
Systematic position in 2-Superkingdom, 7-Kingdom classification of Ruggiero et al. (2015)
Super Kingdom- Eukaryota, Kingdom- Plantae, Subkingdom- Viridiplantae, Infrakingdom- Streptophyta, Superphylum- Embryophyta, Phylum- Tracheophyta, Subphylum- Spermatophytina, Superclass- Angiospermae, Class- Magnoliopsida, Superorder- Magnolianae, Order- Magnoliales
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83)
Class : Dicotyledons
Subclass : Polypetalae
Series : Thalamiflorae
Orders : Ranales
Engler & Prantl (1887-1915)
Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Embryophyta Siphonogama
Subdivision : Angiospermae
Class : Dicotyledoneae
Subclass : Archichlamydeae
Order : Ranales
Suborder : Magnoliineae
Hutchinson (1973)
Phylum : Angiospermae
Subphylum : Dicotyledones
Division : Lignosae
Order : Magnoliales
Cronquist (1988)
Division : Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Subclass : Magnoliidae
Order : Magnoliales
Thorne & Reveal (2007)
Class : Magnoliopsida
Subclass : Magnoliidae
Super Order: Magnolianae
Order : Magnoliales
Takhtajan (2009)
Phylum : Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Subclass : Magnoliidae
Super Order : Magnolianae
Order : Magnoliales
Reveal (2012)
Class : Equisetopsida
Subclass : Magnoliidae
Super Order : Magnolianae
Order : Magnoliales
APG-IV (2016)
Clade : Angiosperms
Clade : Magnoliids
Order : Magnoliales
Shipunov (2020)
Class : Angiospermae
Subclass : Magnoliidae
Order : Magnoliales
Suborder : Magnoliineae
Genera & Species in Pantnagar
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