Canellales

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Canellales

Canellales is the botanical name

Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
for an order of flowering plants, one of the four orders of the magnoliids. It is defined to contain two families: Canellaceae

Canellaceae

The Canellaceae are a family of flowering plants. The family has sixteen species in six genus. The species are highly aromatic evergreen plants, mostly trees and rarely shrubs, which produce essential oils....
and Winteraceae

Winteraceae

The Winteraceae are a family of flowering plants. The family includes 120 species of trees and shrubs in 9 genus.The Winteraceae are a mostly southern-hemisphere family associated with the Antarctic flora, found in tropical to temperate climate regions of Malesia, Oceania ecozone, eastern Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar and the Neotropic...
, which comprise 136 species of fragrant tree

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s and shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s. The Canellaceae are found in tropical America and Africa, and the Winteraceae are part of the Antarctic flora

Antarctic flora

The Antarctic flora is a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana, and is now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including southern South America, southernmost Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania, and New Caledonia....
(found in diverse parts of the southern hemisphere). Although the order was defined based on phylogenetic studies, a number of possible synapomorphies have been suggested, relating to the pollen tube, the seeds, the thickness of the integument, and other aspects of the morphology

Plant morphology

Plant morphology is the general term for the study of the morphology of plants. This is usually considered distinct from plant anatomy, which is the study of the internal Anatomy of plants, especially at the microscopic level....
.

Until 1999, these two families were not considered to be closely related.

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Canellales is the botanical name

Botanical name

Canellaceae

Winteraceae

TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s and shrub

Shrub

Antarctic flora

Plant morphology

Winteraceae

Xylem

In vascular plants, xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue, phloem being the other. The word "xylem" is derived from classical Greek language ????? , "wood", and indeed the best known xylem tissue is wood, though it is found throughout the plant....
and carpel, a structure which now seems to be derived from xylem and carpels more typical of the angiosperms as a whole). The Canellaceae

Canellaceae

Myristicaceae

Myristicaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists; it is sometimes called the "nutmeg family", after its most famous member, Nutmeg ....
. However, studies starting in 1999, based on molecular phylogeny

Molecular phylogeny

Molecular phylogenetics, also known as molecular systematics, is the use of the structure of molecules to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships....
or morphology, have supported uniting these two families.