biology 3404f evolution of plants fall 2008
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BIOLOGY 3404F EVOLUTION OF PLANTS Fall 2008. Lecture 18 Tuesday November 25, 2008 Monocots. Phylum Magnoliophyta, Class Liliopsida. Order Acorales - Sweet Flag Order Alismatales - Water Plantain, etc. Order Dioscoreales - Yams and relatives Order Liliales - Lilies and relatives - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
BIOLOGY 3404FEVOLUTION OF PLANTS
Fall 2008
Lecture 18
Tuesday November 25, 2008
Monocots
Phylum Magnoliophyta, Class Liliopsida
• Order Acorales - Sweet Flag• Order Alismatales - Water Plantain, etc.• Order Dioscoreales - Yams and relatives• Order Liliales - Lilies and relatives• Order Asparagales - Asparagus and relatives• Order Arecales - Palms• Order Commelinales - Spiderwort , etc.• Order Zingiberales - Gingers, bananas etc. • Order Poales - Graminoids and bromeliads
PoalesDasypogonaceaeZingiberalesCommelinalesArecalesAsparagalesLilialesPandanalesDioscorealesPetrosavialesAlismatalesAcoralesChase, 2004AmJBot 91:1645-1655
Acorales: Acoraceae, Sweet Flag
http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/thome/band1/tafel_042_small.jpg
Rhizomes of Sweet Flag have been used as food and medicine around the northern hemisphere. They are said to have a pungent and bitter taste, perhaps why they were sometimes candied. Chewing on a fresh piece of rhizome (preferably with the mud washed off) is said to be good for relieving toothaches or for teething children; also for relieving tiredness among trappers (the northern version of coca leaves). Not recommended by the FDA.
Order Alismatales
• Families
• Alismataceae - water plantains
• Araceae - aroids (includes Lemnaceae – the duckweeds)
• Hydrocharitaceae - various “waterweeds”
• Potamogetonaceae - pondweeds
• Zosteraceae - eelgrass
Alismataceae
http://biology.smsu.edu/Herbarium/Plants
Saggitaria (arrowhead lilies, left) and Alisma (water plantains, below) are common aquatic plants
Araceae, the Aroids
Anthurium (left) and Arisaema (Jack-in-the-pulpit, right) are classic aroids, with spathe and spadix inflorescences
Duckweeds: Lemna and Wolffia (Araceae, formerly Lemnaceae)
Wolffia borealis flower (Araceae, formerly Lemnaceae)
Flowering plant of Lemna gibba (Araceae, formerly Lemnaceae)
Valisneria, or freshwater eel grass (Hydrocharitaceae)
Hydrocharitaceae - various “waterweeds”
Elodea (top left, a common aquarium plant) is a monocot and member of the Hydrocharitaceae, but Myriophyllum (top right) and Ranunculus aquatilis (lower) are both eudicots – all adapted for life in water.
Potamogetonaceae - pondweeds
http://www.mikrojezioro.met.pl/atlas_ros/original/potamogeton_natans_rys.jpg
Pondweeds may have broad floating or emergent leaves, and grass-like or filamentous submerged leaves; flowers are inconspicuous.
Zosteraceae – eel grasses
Eel grass (Zostera marina) is an important food of many marine animals, including brant geese; flowers are rarely seen and very inconspicuous at the base of the leaves.
http://www.eeb.uconn.edu
www.nature.shetland.co.uk/ brc/seawatch.htm
Order Dioscoreales: Dioscoreaceae - Yams
Progesterone (birth-control) pills and cortisone are manufactured from cultivated yams (Dioscorea)
Order Liliales
• Families
• Liliaceae
• Smilacaceae
• Trilliaceae
Zygadenus (Liliaceae)
Smilax, known as greenbriers
Order Asparagales
Alliaceae (incl
Amaryllidaceae)
Asparagaceae
(incl Agavaceae)
Iridaceae
Orchidaceae
Yucca and Asparagus (Asparagaceae)
Alliaceae - onions and Amaryllis
Iridaceae
http://www.frogsonice.com/photos/flowers2/iris.jpg
Orchidaceae – the orchids
Pollinating an orchid can be dangerous!
Order Arecales:Arecaceae (Palmae) - the palms
Coconut, oil palm, palm nuts (pejibaye), palm hearts, …
Order Commelinales
• Commelinaceae - spiderworts
• Pontederiaceae - pickerelweeds
Order Poales - graminoids, bromeliads and relatives
Families• Bromeliaceae - bromeliads• Cyperaceae - sedges• Eriocaulaceae• Juncaceae - rushes• Poaceae (= Gramineae) - grasses• Typhaceae (incl. Sparganiaceae) - bullrushes• Xyridaceae
Bromeliaceae - bromeliads
Cyperaceae, Typhaceae
Carex, a sedge Typha, cat-tail or bullrush
Poaceae (= Gramineae) - grasses
Order Zingiberales
• Heliconiaceae - heliconias
• Marantaceae - marantas
• Musaceae - bananas
• Zingiberaceae - gingers
Heliconia
http://floredumonde.online.fr/photos/heliconia.jpg
Maranta, Marantaceae
A ginger
Musa, the banana
Importance
• Economic: HUGE! List some of the major monocot crops. What other products, other than food, do we obtain from monocots?
• Ecological: HUGE! Grasses, and in cooler, wetter areas sedges, form the dominant vegetation over large areas of the globe.
• Evolutionary: Second and fifth largest (in number of species) flowering plant families: Orchidaceae (20k) and Poaceae (9k). Tremendous diversity and huge impact on evolution of other groups organisms, from microbes to vertebrates.