The fleshy aril which surrounds each seed in the yew is a highly modified seed cone scale.
The plant order Taxales was until recently treated as a distinct order in the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, and included only those species in the family Taxaceae, known commonly as yews. Under this interpretation, all other conifers were classified separately in the order Pinales. Recent genetic and micromorphological studies, however, have shown the Taxaceae are closely related to the other conifers, particularly so to the family Cephalotaxaceae. The order Taxales is therefore no longer recognised as distinct, and the family Taxaceae is now included in the order Cupressales.[1] See Pinophyta for more details.
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The plant order Taxales was until recently treated as a distinct order in the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, and included only those species in...
time. The most commonly seen in the past was a split into two orders, Taxales (Taxaceae only) and Pinales (the rest), but recent research into DNA sequences...
treated as distinct from other conifers by placing them in a separate order Taxales. Ernest Henry Wilson referred to Taxaceae as "taxads" in his 1916 book...
Pteridophyta Ferns Same as horsetails Coniferophyta Conifers Includes Pinales, Taxales, Cupressaceae and hundreds of other species. Reproduce by producing seeds...
Coniferopsida subclass Multinervidae (6 orders) subclass Taxidae order Taxales order Pinales With the development of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group came...
single species. Sahni was among the first to suggest a separate order, the Taxales, within the conifers to contain the genera Taxus, Torreya and Cephalotaxus...
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