The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. They are magnoliids, related to the Magnoliales. The order includes about 2500–2800 species from 85 to 90 genera, which comprise seven families of trees and shrubs. Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate zone.

Laurales, the laurel order of flowering plants, containing 7 families, 91 genera, and about 2,900 species. Members of Laurales are trees, shrubs, or woody vines. Most are found in tropical or warm temperate climates, and they are especially abundant in …

Lauraceae, the laurel family of flowering plants (order Laurales), comprising some 50 genera and more than 2,500 species of mostly evergreen shrubs and trees. Lauraceae is distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions; principally Southeast Asia and tropical America, particularly Brazil.

The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. They are a basal group of dicots. They are related to, and sometimes included in, the Magnoliales. The order includes 85-90 genera from seven families of trees and shrubs. Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate zone.

Araripia florifera, from the Lower Cretaceous of Brasil around 113 Ma, has flowers that are very like those of Calycanthaceae, but its opposite leaves are lobed (Mohr & Ecklund 2003); nothing was known of the internal structure of the flower.

Laurales is an order of flowering species composing aromatic oil flowers from trees, shrubs, herbs, and vines. This order comprises seven families (Atherospermataceae, Calycanthaceae, Gomortegaceae, Hernandiaceae, Lauraceae, Monomiaceae, and Siparunaceae), 91 …

Apr 3, 2020 · Lauraceae, also referred to as the laurel family, is a family from the order Laurales in Magnoliids 1. The family includes a total of 2500–3000 globally distributed species in 44 genera of the...

This early–middle Albian flower is bisexual and trimerous and is characterized by a single carpel with one seed. The presence of several derived characters in P. lobatus provides support for the hypothesis that diversification of the Laurales was well underway in the Early Cretaceous.

Jan 16, 2025 · Circumscription and phylogeny of the Laurales: evidence from molecular and morphological data. American Journal of Botany 86(9): 1301-1315. Full text PDF Reference page .

The laurels are a family of flowering plants known to botanists as the Lauraceae. Lauraceae contains about 45 genera and 2,000 species, and is the most diverse family in the order Laurales. Most species grow in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia and Central and South America.