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Gnetales

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Noun1.Gnetales - chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
order Gnetales
plant order - the order of plants
class Gnetopsida, Gnetophyta, Gnetophytina, Gnetopsida, subdivision Gnetophytina - gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta)
family Gnetaceae, Gnetaceae - plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum
Ephedraceae, family Ephedraceae - ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
family Welwitschiaceae, Welwitschiaceae - in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
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Indeed, several recent studies suggest that the Gnetales are sister to other conifers and not the angiosperms (Goremykin et al.
The systematic position of the monocotyledons inferred from 26S RNA ... by Neyland, Ray / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
 
 
 
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