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Alismatales
| Description | The Alismatales (alismatids) are an order of flowering plants including about 4500 species. Plants assigned to this order are mostly tropical or aquatic. Some grow in fresh water, some in marine habitats. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alismatales, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Plantae : Tracheophyta : Liliopsida : Alismatales | ||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Alismatales | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Froschlöffelartige, ăȘăąăă«, Svaltingordningen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alismatales |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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 Alismataceaefamily | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 22 | 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 11.6 Ma Miocene | |
| Aponogetonaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
 Araceaefamily | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 52 | 101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Butomaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Cymodoceaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 15 | 48.6 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Hydrocharitaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Juncaginaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 26 | 37.2 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Limnocharitaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Maundiaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Posidoniaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 21 | 83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Potamogetonaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
| Ruppiaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 6 | 48.6 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Scheuchzeriaceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Tofieldiaceae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Zosteraceae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 47 | 109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Limnocarpus genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Pennipollis genus | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Van der Meijden, R. (2005) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN) |
| Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. (2016). An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181(1): 1-20. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| GÀrdenfors, Ulf, Hall, R., HallingbÀck, T., Hansson, H.G. & Hedström, L. (2003) Djur, svampar och vÀxter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska vÀxtfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
