Cornales
Sign in to saveThe Cornales are an order of flowering plants, early diverging among the asterids, containing about 600 species. Plants within the Cornales usually have four-parted flowers, drupaceous fruits, and inferior to half-inferior gynoecia topped with disc-shaped nectaries.
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Cornales is an order of flowering plants that split off early in the evolution of a major plant group called asterids and includes about 600 species. Members of this order typically share certain features, like flowers with four parts, fruits with a hard pit inside, and a particular structure in their female reproductive organs topped with disc-shaped nectar-producing tissues.
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The Cornales are an order of flowering plants, early diverging among the asterids, containing about 600 species. Plants within the Cornales usually have four-parted flowers, drupaceous fruits, and inferior to half-inferior gynoecia topped with disc-shaped nectaries.
==Taxonomy ==