Canellales
White Cinnamon ( Canella alba Murr. )
The Canellales are an order of plants in the informal group of Magnoliopsida. It contains two families.
Description
They are evergreen, woody plants. The plants are hairless. The primary shoot axis contains a continuous vascular cylinder. The sieve tube plastids contain starch and protein crystalloids and / or threads. The vascular bundles in the petiole are bent. The leaves contain branched sclereids.
The flowers are hermaphrodite. The floral organs are thus arranged spirally not divided into districts flowers, all flower parts are free: two to six sepals, petals zero to many, many to three stamens and two to many carpels. The shape of the dust and carpels is very original. The fruits are berries.
Dissemination
The area is disjoint and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. Your home is the tropics and subtropics.
System
The 1957 first described by Arthur John Cronquist order is part of the informal group of Magnoliids, a basal group of angiosperms from four orders. My sister taxon are the pepper -like. The Canellales include two families:
Swell
- The order in APWebsite (English )