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A close relationship between Berberidopsidaceae and Aextoxicaceae has never been considered until gene sequence studies provided strong support for a relationship between them (see family treatments). In the four-gene analysis of eudicots (Soltis et al. 2003), Gunnerales and subsequently Berberidopsidales are sister to all other core eudicots, the latter being strongly supported by molecular data and isolated from all other clades (Fig. 1). Aextoxicum has long been known for its peculiar wood anatomy, particularly the high number of bars of the vessel element perforations. A recent study by Carlquist (2003) has revealed many important similarities in the wood anatomy of the two families, although these are plesiomorphic. Pollen grains are relatively small and tricolpate to indistinctly colporate. The two families share encyclocytic stomata (Soltis et al. 2005), a rare character in angiosperms, stout filaments, and a ring of vascular bundles in the petiole (Judd and Olmstead 2004).
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Kubitzki, K. (2007). Introduction to the Groups Treated in this Volume. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32219-1_1
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