Magnoliales
Magnolias, tulip trees, nutmeg, pawpaw, sour sop, etc.
The Magnoliales are comprised of 6 families and about 2,500 species. They are mostly woody trees and shrubs, and traditionally thought to be basal-most representatives of angiosperms. In the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III (2009) project, the Magnoliales are grouped with other Magnoliids (i.e. Canellales, Piperales, Laurales). This places the group more ancestral in the angiosperm clade, but not basal-most as once thought.
Geologic Range
Classification
└Magnoliales
├Annonaceae
├Degeneriaceae
├Eupomatiaceae
├Himantandraceae
├Magnoliaceae
└Myristicaceae
Diversity
└Magnoliales
├Annonaceae
├Degeneriaceae
├Eupomatiaceae
├Himantandraceae
├Magnoliaceae
└Myristicaceae
Magnoliaceae
Endressinia: Ovate leaves with bisexual terminal flowers from Early Cretaceous
Magnoliaceoxylon: Eocene wood
Lesqueria: fruiting axis from the mid-Cretaceous
Archaeanthus
Fruit with many follicles (Dilcher and Crane 1984)
Elongate axis with clusters of tightly packed follicles
Above: Magnoliaceoxylon
Above: Lesqueria