Class: Magnoliaceae Order: Juglandales Family: Juglandaceae

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Class Magnoliaceae Order Juglandales
Family Juglandaceae Walnut Family

• Deciduous trees.
• Leaves pinnately compound aromatic.
• Plants monoecious staminate flowers in catkins
  pistillate flowers solitary apetalous
• Ovary inferior 2-3 carpels with 1 locules and I
  ovule.
• Fruit a drupe-like nut with a dehiscent or
  indehiscent leathery husk sometimes a winged
  nutlet.
• Julans walnuts and pecans
• Carya hickories

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Class Magnoliaceae Order Salicales
Family Salicaceae Willows Cottonwoods

• Deciduous trees or shrubs.
• Leaves simple, alternate often with stipules.
• Dioecious flowers unisexual, naked in erect or
  pendulous catkins.
• Ovary superior 2 carpels 1 locule 2-4 styles.
• Fruit a capsule with numerous hairy seeds..
• Salix willows, Populus cottonwoods

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Class Magnoliaceae Order Fagales
Family Fagaceae Oaks Beeches

• Trees or shrubs.
• Leaves simple, alternate.

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Class Magnoliaceae Order Fagales
Family Fagaceae Oaks Beeches

1. Trees or shrubs.
2. Leaves simple, alternate.
3. Monoecious staminate and pistillate flowers in
   catkins some pistillate flowers solitary.
   Pistillate flowers have numerous branchlets.
4. Ovary inferior with 3-7 locules 3-7 carpels 2
   ovules per locule but 1 aborting.

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Class Magnoliaceae Order Fagales
Family Fagaceae Oaks Beeches

• Trees or shrubs.
• Leaves simple, alternate.
• Monoecious staminate and pistillate flowers in
  catkins some pistillate flowers solitary.
  Pistillate flowers have numerous branchlets.
• Ovary inferior with 3-7 locules 3-7 carpels 2
  ovules per locule but 1 aborting.
• Fruit a nut subtended or surrounded by a woody
  cup-like or bur-like involucre.
• Quercus oaks, Fagus beeches, Castenea
  chestnuts