order gnetales

1. Chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants;
   Practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms (synset 111617296)
   is a type of: plant order - the order of plants
   member holonym:

   • family gnetaceae, gnetaceae - plants having small unisexual flowers and fleshy or winged fruit: in some classifications includes the genera Ephedra and Welwitschia as well as genus Gnetum
   • ephedraceae, family ephedraceae - ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
   • family welwitschiaceae, welwitschiaceae - in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae
   belongs to: class gnetopsida, gnetophyta, gnetophytina, gnetopsida, subdivision gnetophytina - gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta)
   same as: gnetales

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