Download Class: Magnoliaceae Order: Juglandales Family

Class: Magnoliaceae
Order: Juglandales
Family: Juglandaceae “Walnut Family”
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Deciduous trees.
Leaves pinnately compound &
aromatic.
Plants monoecious; staminate
flowers in catkins; pistillate flowers
solitary; apetalous
Ovary inferior; 2-3 carpels with 1
locules and I ovule.
Fruit a drupe-like nut with a
dehiscent or indehiscent leathery
husk; sometimes a winged nutlet.
Julans “walnuts and pecans”
Carya “hickories”
Class: Magnoliaceae
Order: Salicales
Family: Salicaceae “Willows &
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Cottonwoods”
Deciduous trees or shrubs.
Leaves simple, alternate often with stipules.
Dioecious; flowers unisexual, naked in erect or pendulous
catkins.
Ovary superior; 2 carpels; 1 locule; 2-4 styles.
Fruit a capsule with numerous hairy seeds..
Salix “willows”, Populus “cottonwoods”
Class: Magnoliaceae
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae “Oaks & Beeches”
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Trees or shrubs.
Leaves simple, alternate.
Class: Magnoliaceae
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae “Oaks & Beeches”
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Trees or shrubs.
Leaves simple, alternate.
Monoecious; staminate and
pistillate flowers in catkins; some
pistillate flowers solitary. Pistillate
flowers have numerous branchlets.
Ovary inferior with 3-7 locules; 3-7
carpels; 2 ovules per locule – but 1
aborting.
Class: Magnoliaceae
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae “Oaks & Beeches”
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Trees or shrubs.
Leaves simple, alternate.
Monoecious; staminate and
pistillate flowers in catkins; some
pistillate flowers solitary.
Pistillate flowers have numerous
branchlets.
Ovary inferior with 3-7 locules; 37 carpels; 2 ovules per locule –
but 1 aborting.
Fruit a nut subtended or
surrounded by a woody cup-like
or bur-like involucre.
Quercus “oaks”, Fagus “beeches”,
Castenea “chestnuts”