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The Solanales are an order of flowering plants, included in the asterid group of dicotyledons. Some older sources used the name Polemoniales for this order. Taxonomy. Under the older Cronquist system, the latter three families were placed elsewhere, and a number of others were included:
The greatest diversity in species is found in South America and Central America. In 2017, scientists reported on their discovery and analysis of a fossil species belonging to the living genus Physalis, Physalis infinemundi, found in the Patagonian region of Argentina, dated to 52 million years ago.
Solanales, potato order of flowering plants, including five families with 165 genera and more than 4,080 species. Two of the families are large and contain some of the most highly cultivated plants: Solanaceae (nightshades) and Convolvulaceae (morning glories). Solanales belongs to the core asterid.
Sep 22, 2021 · Assigned to Solanales order in the APG IV classification (Stevens 2015), along with Convolvulaceae, Hydroleaceae, Montiniaceae, and Sphenocleaceae, Solanaceae are considered a monophyletic group based on chloroplast DNA restriction (Olmstead and Palmer 1992). It is the largest plant family after Poaceae and Fabaceae and, as typical of large ...
- Riccardo Motti
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- 2021
Mar 6, 2024 · Solanaceae, the nightshade, or potato, family of flowering plants (order Solanales ), with 102 genera and about 2,280 species, many of considerable economic importance as food and drug plants.
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Category. : Solanales. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Solanales. Families, genera and species in the flowering plant order Solanales, as circumscribed by the APG IV system (2016).
In 2017, scientists reported on their discovery and analysis of a fossil species belonging to the living genus Physalis, Physalis infinemundi, found in the Patagonian region of Argentina, dated to 52 million years ago. The finding has pushed back the earliest appearance of the plant family Solanaceae.
