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Saururaceae
plant family
Also known as: lizard’s-tail family
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characteristics
- In Piperales: Families
Saururaceae, the lizard’s-tail family, is native to North America and Southeast Asia. It includes five genera and six species, most of them aromatic herbs with creeping rhizomes (horizontal stems). The plants generally inhabit wet areas.
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evolution of magnoliids
- In magnoliid clade: Evolution
…Saururaceae, Piperaceae, and Aristolochiaceae (Piperales), but its reproductive organs resemble Chloranthaceae (Piperales). If the fossil had also contained the Clavatipollenites pollen, further links with Chloranthaceae and Aristolochiaceae would have been suggested. An ancestor of such a plant, with a small rhizomatous perennial form and diminutive reproductive organs, might represent…
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