List of basal asterid families

Heathlands
"heathlands"
"flowers and foliage on a tree"
Flowering plant families (APG IV)
Early-diverging flowering plants
Monocots: Alismatids • Commelinids • Lilioids
Eudicots
Basal eudicots • Dilleniales and Gunnerales
Superasterids: Basal superasterids (and the asterids)
Asterids: Basal asterids • Euasterids
Superrosids: Saxifragales (and the rosids)
Rosids: COM clade • Malvids • Nitrogen-fixing clade • Vitales and Zygophyllales
For the other asterids, see List of euasterid families.

Ericales and Cornales, two orders of flowering plants, are often called the basal asterids.[1][2][3][a][b] Like most asterids, these species tend to have petals that are fused with each other and with the bases of the stamens, and just one integument (covering) around the embryo sac.[3]

The basal asterids include crops such as blueberries, cranberries, tea and Brazil nuts.[6] Kiwifruit was named for its resemblance to the brown body of the kiwi, a national symbol of New Zealand.[7] Dogwoods (Cornus) are often grown for their showy bracts.[8] Black or white ebony wood is commonly used for musical instruments and carpentry.[9] Many Hydrangea species are popular garden ornamentals.[10]

  1. ^ a b Angiosperm Phylogeny Group 2016.
  2. ^ Christenhusz, Fay & Chase 2017, pp. 471, 479.
  3. ^ a b c Stevens 2023, Asterids.
  4. ^ Christenhusz, Fay & Chase 2017.
  5. ^ POWO.
  6. ^ Christenhusz, Fay & Chase 2017, pp. 485–487, 496–497, 506–510.
  7. ^ Christenhusz, Fay & Chase 2017, p. 504.
  8. ^ Christenhusz, Fay & Chase 2017, pp. 477–479.
  9. ^ Christenhusz, Fay & Chase 2017, pp. 491–492.
  10. ^ Christenhusz, Fay & Chase 2017, pp. 473–474.


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