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Laurales

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Relationships after Renner 1999.
Containing group: magnoliids

References

Chanderbali, A. S., H. van der Werff, and S. S. Renner. 2001. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of Lauraceae: Evidence from the chloroplast and nuclear genomes. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88:104-134.

Doyle, J. A. and P. K. Endress. 2000. Morphological phylogenetic analysis of basal angiosperms: Comparison and combination with molecular data. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S121-S153.

Drinnan, A. N., P. R. Crane, E. M. Friis, and K. R. Pedersen. 1990. Lauraceous flowers from the Potomac group (mid-Cretaceous) of eastern North America. Botanical Gazette 151:370-384.

Eklund, H. 2000. Lauraceous flowers from the Late Cretaceous of North Carolina, USA. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 132:397-428.

Endress, P.K. and A. Igersheim. 1997. Gynoecium diversity and systematics of the Laurales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 125:93-168.

Heo, K., H. van der Werff, and H. Tobe. 1998. Embryology and relationships of Lauraceae (Laurales). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 126:295-322.

Kimoto, Y. and H. Tobe. 2001. Embryology of Laurales: a review and perspectives. Journal of Plant Research 114:247-267.

Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 1999. The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes. Nature 402:404-407.

Qiu, Y. L., J. H. Lee, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, M. Zanis, E. A. Zimmer, Z. D. Chen, V. Savolainen, and M. W. Chase. 2000. Phylogeny of basal angiosperms: Analyses of five genes from three genomes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S3-S27.

Renner, S. S. 1999. Circumscription and phylogeny of the Laurales: Evidence from molecular and morphological data. American Journal of Botany 86:1301-1315.

Renner, S. S. and A. S. Chanderbali. 2000. What is the relationship among Hernandiaceae, Lauraceae, and Monimiaceae, and why is this question so difficult to answer? International Journal of Plant Sciences 161:S109-S119.

Renner, S. S., A. E. Schwarzbach, and L. Lohmann. 1997. Phylogenetic position and floral function of Siparuna (Siparunaceae: Laurales). International Journal of Plant Sciences 158:S89-S98.

Rohwer, J. G. 2000. Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Lauraceae: Evidence from matK sequences. Systematic Botany 25:60-71.

Savolainen, V., M. W. Chase, S. B. Hoot, C. M. Morton, D. E. Soltis, C. Bayer, M. F. Fay, A. Y. De Bruijn, S. Sullivan, and Y. L. Qiu. 2000. Phylogenetics of flowering plants based on combined analysis of plastid atpB and rbcL gene sequences. Systematic Biology 49:306-362.

Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, M. W. Chase, M. E. Mort, D. C. Albach, M. Zanis, V. Savolainen, W. H. Hahn, S. B. Hoot, M. F. Fay, M. Axtell, S. M. Swensen, L. M. Prince, W. J. Kress, K. C. Nixon, and J. S. Farris. 2000. Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA, rbcL, and atpB sequences. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 133:381-461.

Vander Werff, H. 1991. A key to the generea of Lauraceae in the New World. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 78:377-387.

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Scientific Name Laurus nobilis
Comments Laurel, bay leaf, Lauraceae.
Reference Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz - in Wort und Bild für Schule und Haus (1885 - 1905)
Source Collection BioLib Online Library of Biological Books
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