Gnetales

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Divisio: Tracheophyta
Classis: Gnetopsida
Ordo: Gnetales
Familia: Ephedraceae – Gnetaceae – Welwitschiaceae

Genera incertae sedis: †Bassitheca

Name

Gnetales Blume ex Mart., Consp. Regn. Veg.: 11. (1835)

Type genus: Gnetum Syst. Nat. (ed. 12) 2: 612, 637. (1767)

Synonymy

Ephedrales Dumortier
Tumboales Wettstein
Welwitschiales Reveal
Ephedridae Reveal
Gnetidae Pax
Welwitschiidae Reveal
Ephedropsida Reveal
Gnetopsida Thomé
Welwitschiopsida B. Boivin
Gnetophytina Reveal

Note: Three monotypic families is unsatisfactory classification, but Yang's proposal to separate the three into their own orders, families and genera is not supported by any new evidence and is equally unsatisfactory.

References

Martius, C.F.P. von 1835. Conspectus Regni Vegetabilis secundum characteres morphologicos praesertim carpicos in classes ordines et familias digesti, adjectis exemplis nominibusque plantarum usui medico technico et oeconomico inserventium. Uebersicht der Classen, Ordnungnen und Familien des Gewächsreiches nach morphologischen Grundsätzen, unter besonderer Rücksicht auf den Fruchtbau, mit Angabe von Beispielen und von den in der Medicin, Technik und Oekonomie besonders wichtigen Pflanzen, zunächst als Leitfaden bei seinen akademischen Vorlesungen entworfen […]. Nürnberg: J. L. Schrag. 72 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.7730 Reference page.
Doweld, A.B. 2001. Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum. Tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta) [Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum. Опыт системы сосудистых растений]. LXXX + 110 pp. Moscow: Geos. ISBN 5-89118-283-1. Фундаментальная электронная библиотека «Флора и фауна» DJVU Google Books Reference page.
Christenhusz, M.J.M., Reveal, J.L., Farjon, A., Gardner, M.F., Mill, R.R. & Chase, M.W. 2011. A new classification and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms. Phytotaxa 19: 55–70. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.3 PDF Reference page.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.
Yang, Y., Ferguson, D.K., Liu, B., Mao, K.-S., Gao, L.-M., Zhang, S.-Z., Wan, T., Rushforth, K.D. & Zhang, Z.-X. 2022. Recent advances on phylogenomics of gymnosperms and an updated classification. Plant Diversity 44(4): 340–350. DOI: 10.1016/j.pld.2022.05.003 . ResearchGate . Reference page. }

Vernacular names

polski: Gniotowce

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