Pandanales
Sign in to savePandanales, the pandans or screw-pines, is an order of flowering plants placed in the monocot clade in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web systems. Within the monocots Pandanales are grouped in the lilioid monocots where they are in a sister group relationship with the Dioscoreales. Historically the order has consisted of a number of different families in different systems but modern classification of the order is based primarily on molecular phylogenetics despite diverse morphology which previously placed many of the families in other groupings based on apparent simila
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Pandanales is an order within the plant kingdom, classified under the phylum Tracheophyta. It belongs to the class Liliopsida according to some taxonomic sources, while others place it in Magnoliopsida. The taxon author citation for this order is "R.Br. ex Bercht. & J.Presl". Its current taxonomic status is accepted.
The order has existed for approximately 114 million years. Records associated with Pandanales have been documented in South Africa, Madagascar, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia. One specific dataset lists 34 records and 2 media items from the institution MEL. A broader occurrence database contains 164,286 entries for this taxon.
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Species
ORDER
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPandanales
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- With media
- 2
- Collections
- MEL
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Madagascar, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Panama, Bolivia (Plurinational State Of), Honduras
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- Description
- Taxonomy
- History
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
- Evolution
- Phylogeny
- Subdivision
- Distribution
- Ecology
- Uses
- References
- Bibliography
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Pandanales, the pandans or screw-pines, is an order of flowering plants placed in the monocot clade in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and Angiosperm Phylogeny Web systems. Within the monocots Pandanales are grouped in the lilioid monocots where they are in a sister group relationship with the Dioscoreales. Historically the order has consisted of a number of different families in different systems but modern classification of the order is based primarily on molecular phylogenetics despite diverse morphology which previously placed many of the families in other groupings based on apparent similarity. Members of the order have a subtropical distribution and includes trees, shrubs, and vines as well as herbaceous plants. The order consists of 5 families, 36 genera and about 1,610 species.
==Description == thumb|right|Talbotia elegans Pandanales are highly diverse including large arboraceous plants of tropical rainforests and coastal areas, climbing vines and lianas, as well as very small achlorophyllous (mycoheterotrophic) and saprophytic herbaceous forest floor species. This has made it difficult to reliably define synapomorphies, but the loss of trimery distinguishes many of them from other lilioid monocots.
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