Eudicots

Solanales

Sweet potatoes

Convolvulaceae

Morning Glory family under Solanales (sweet potatoes)

Convolvulaceae vines

Dextrose twining vines

Convolvulaceae flowers

Often funnel shaped

Actinomorphic, sympetalous

__% of angiosperms are eudicots

75

Eudicot apomorphy

tricolpate pollen

A

monosulcate pollen (monocots)

B

tricolpate pollen (eudicots)

eudicot characters that aren’t apomorphies:

1. two cotyledons

2. tap roots

3. reticulate (netted) venation

4. flower parts in 4/5s

5. vascular bundles in a ring around stem

Ranunculales key families

Berberidaceae

Papaveraceae

Ranunculaceae

Nelumbonaceae

Berberidaceae

Barberry Family

Berberidaceae perianth

Multiseriate perianth (6-7 series of whorls):

• Outer sepaloid

• Inner petaliod

Series

a whorl of parts in the flower

Biseriate

2 series or whorls of parts

Multiseriate

many series or whorls of parts

Berberidaceae pistil

Single unicarpellate pistil

Mayapple

key barberry species (Berberidaceae, Ranunculales)

Papaveraceae

Poppy family (Ranunculales)

Papaveraceae and Ranunculaceae stamens

numerous

Papaveraceae capsule

Loculicidal or poricidal

Papaveraceae pistil

single compound

Papaveraceae special feature

latex (often colorful)

latex

Milky fluid used for herbivory defense (not sap)

Ranunculaceae

Buttercup Family (Ranunculales)

Ranunculaceae gynoecium

Apocarpous gynoecium

Monkshood

key species of Ranunculaceae (Ranunculales)

other names for Monkshood

wolfs bane, aconite

monkshood importance

one of the most poisonous plants in North America historically used in poisons (arrows, hunting)

Nelumbonaceae

water lotus family (Ranunculales)

Nelumbonaceae traits

aquatic herbs

Nelumbonaceae leaves

emergent (sticking out of water) concave-peltate

Nelumbonaceae flowers

emergent (sticking out of water), solitary

Water Lillies (Nymphaeaceae)

NOT Water Lotuses (Nelumbonaceae)

Early Angiosperms

Tepals intergrade with stamens