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order Gnetales

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Noun1.order Gnetales - chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
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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