Celastrales
This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the Tree of Life. The basal branching point in the tree represents the ancestor of the other groups in the tree. This ancestor diversified over time into several descendent subgroups, which are represented as internal nodes and terminal taxa to the right.
You can click on the root to travel down the Tree of Life all the way to the root of all Life, and you can click on the names of descendent subgroups to travel up the Tree of Life all the way to individual species.
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Savolainen, V., M. W. Chase, S. B. Hoot, C. M. Morton, D. E. Soltis, C. Bayer, M. F. Fay, A. Y. De Bruijn, S. Sullivan, and Y. L. Qiu. 2000a. Phylogenetics of flowering plants based on combined analysis of plastid atpB and rbcL gene sequences. Systematic Biology 49:306-362.
Savolainen, V., M. F. Fay, D. C. Albach, A. Backlund, M. van der Bank, K. M. Cameron, S. A. Johnson, M. D. Lledó, J.-C. Pintaud, M. Powell, M. C. Sheahan, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, P. Weston, W. M. Whitten, K. J. Wurdack, and M. W. Chase. 2000b. Phylogeny of the eudicots: a nearly complete familial analysis based on rbcl gene sequences. Kew Bulletin 55:257-309.
Savolainen, V., R. Spichiger, and J.-F. Manen. 1997. Polyphyletism of Celastrales deduced from a chloroplast noncoding DNA region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 7:145-157.
Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, M. W. Chase, M. E. Mort, D. C. Albach, M. Zanis, V. Savolainen, W. H. Hahn, S. B. Hoot, M. F. Fay, M. Axtell, S. M. Swensen, L. M. Prince, W. J. Kress, K. C. Nixon, and J. S. Farris. 2000. Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA, rbcL, and atpB sequences. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 133:381-461.
Title Illustrations
| Scientific Name | Parnassia californica |
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| Location | Big Valley, ~5400', near waterfall, south of Cisco Grove (Placer County, California, USA) |
| Comments | California Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassiaceae) |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source Collection | CalPhotos |
| Copyright | © 2002 |
| Scientific Name | Euonymus occidentalis var. occidentalis |
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| Location | Bear Valley trail, Point Reyes N. S. (Marin County, California, USA) |
| Comments | Western burning bush (Celastraceae) |
| Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
| Source Collection | CalPhotos |
| Copyright | © 2002 |
| Scientific Name | Paxistima myrsinites |
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| Location | Grayback Pass (Siskiyou County, California, USA) |
| Comments | Oregon boxwood (Celastraceae) |
| Creator | Photograph by G. F. Hrusa |
| Source Collection | CalPhotos |
| Copyright | © 2001 |
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