Order Taxales (Noun)
Meaning
Coextensive with the family Taxaceae: yews.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The conifers classed in order Taxales are primarily interpreted as having once formed a larger clade that began as foliage-bearing, initially branching stems.
- Biologically, the yew genus Taxus along with the other members of the order Taxales, represent some three-hundred-million-year-old genetic lineages of conifer.
- By several estimates the order Taxales includes conifers where seeds develop on the upper side of a scale-like structure.
- Cones in older s.l. interpretations, or order Taxales are found to have only a single ovule on each scale.
- Botanists group yew plants along with a small group of their cousins within order Taxales constituting a modern distinct lineage of seed-plant related genera more directly than extant pines or all that is cypress based.