Asterales

Belongs within: Campanulidae.
Contains: Campanulaceae, Stylidiaceae, Menyanthaceae, Goodeniaceae, Asteraceae.

The Asterales are a diverse clade of flowering plants including the composite-flowered plants, bellflowers and related taxa, characterised by the possession of notably small seeds (mobot.org). Members include the Alseuosmiaceae, an Australasian family of evergreen shrubs bearing urn- or salver-shaped flowers and fleshy berries.

Characters (mobot.org): Starch generally absent; apotracheal parenchyma absent; leaves spiral; corolla apiculi inflexed; stamens free from corolla; pollen grains often tricellular; orbicules absent; nectary present; style long; ovules many/carpel, integument >7 cells across, endothelium present, hypostase absent; antipodal cells ephemeral; embryo suspensor filamentous, micropylar and chalazal endosperm haustoria present; x = 9; mitochondrial rpl2 gene lost.

<==Asterales [Asteriflorae, Campanulales, Campanulanae]
    |  i. s.: Donatia Forster & Forster 1776A61 [DonatiaceaeT00]
    |           |--*D. fascicularisA61
    |           `--D. novae-zealandiae Hooker 1853A61
    |--+--CampanulaceaeK03
    |  `--RousseaceaeCM16
    |       |--Roussea simplexCM16
    |       `--+--Carpodetus Forster & Forster 1776CM16, A61
    |          |    `--C. serratus Forster & Forster 1776A61 [incl. C. dentatusC06, C. forsteriC06]
    |          `--+--Abrophyllum ornansCM16
    |             `--Cuttsia viburneaCM16
    `--+--Pentaphragma [Pentaphragmataceae]CM16
       |    |--P. begoniaefoliaRC02
       |    `--P. ellipticumCM16
       `--+--+--StylidiaceaeCM16
          |  `--+--MenyanthaceaeK03
          |     `--+--GoodeniaceaeCM16
          |        |--AsteraceaeK03
          |        `--Boopis [Calyceraceae]K03
          |             |--B. anthemoidesK03
          |             `--B. gramineaK03
          `--+--+--Phelline [Phellinaceae]CM16
             |  |    |--P. comosaK03
             |  |    `--P. lucidaCM16
             |  `--ArgophyllaceaeK03
             |       |--ArgophyllumT00
             |       `--Corokia Cunn. 1839CM16, A61
             |            |--C. buddleoides Cunn. 1839A61
             |            |    |--C. b. var. buddleoidesA61
             |            |    `--C. b. var. linearis Cheesem. 1925A61
             |            |--C. cotoneaster Raoul 1844A61
             |            |--C. macrocarpa Kirk 1899A61
             |            `--C. × virgata Turrill 1912 [C. buddleoides × C. cotoneaster; incl. C. cheesemanii Carse 1913]A61
             `--AlseuosmiaceaeK03
                  |--PeriomphaleT00
                  |--CrispilobaT00
                  |--Wittsteinia [incl. Memecylanthus]T00
                  `--Alseuosmia Cunn. 1839A61
                       |--A. atriplicifolia Cunningham 1839A61
                       |--A. banksii Cunningham 1839A61
                       |--A. ligustrifolia Cunningham 1839 [=A. linariifolia var. ligustrifolia]A61
                       |--A. linariifolia Cunningham 1839 [incl. A. hookeria Colenso 1846]A61
                       |--A. macrophylla Cunningham 1839A61
                       |--A. palaeiformis Cunningham 1839A61
                       |--A. pusilla Colenso 1885 [incl. A. quercifolia var. glauca Kirk 1899]A61
                       `--A. quercifolia Cunningham 1839 [incl. A. ilex Cunningham 1839]A61

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[A61] Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand vol. 1. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. R. E. Owen, Government Printer: Wellington (New Zealand).

[C06] Cheeseman, T. F. 1906. Manual of the New Zealand Flora. John Mackay, Government Printer: Wellington.

[CM16] Crowl, A. A., N. W. Miles, C. J. Visger, K. Hansen, T. Ayers, R. Haberle & N. Cellinese. 2016. A global perspective on Campanulaceae: biogeographic, genomic, and floral evolution. American Journal of Botany 103 (2): 233–245.

[K03] Kårehed, J. 2003. The family Pennantiaceae and its relationships to Apiales. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 1–24.

[RC02] Ridley, H. N., & C. Curtis. 1902. Malay plant names. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 38: 39–122.

[T00] Thorne, R. F. 2000. The classification and geography of the flowering plants: dicotyledons of the class Angiospermae (subclasses Magnoliidae, Ranunculidae, Caryophyllidae, Dilleniidae, Rosidae, Asteridae, and Lamiidae). The Botanical Review 66: 441–647.