BioInfo (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
EU-DICOTS
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Eu-dicots
is also a member of:
Macrophytes
(via Spermatophyta)

BioInfo (UK)

EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)

BioImages BioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 13516 images of EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #refs #webs
Order APIALES (umbellifers, ivies and pennyworts) 48 22 1071
Order AQUIFOLIALES (hollies) 1   185
Order ASTERALES (daisies, dandelions, thistles and bell flowers) 132 43 2602
Family BORAGINACEAE (comfreys and forget-me-nots) 25 1 195
Order BRASSICALES (cabbages, cresses, weld, mignonette, spiders flowers and garden nasturtiums) 57 28 744
Order BUXALES (box trees) 1   91
Order CARYOPHYLLALES (pinks, goosefoots and docks) 96 57 1322
Order CELASTRALES (spindles and grass of Parnassus) 2   64
Order CERATOPHYLLALES (hornworts) 1    
Family CERATOPHYLLACEAE (hornworts)   1 4
Order CORNALES (dogwoods, mock oranges and hydrangeas) 5   103
Order CROSSOSOMATALES (bladdernuts)     10
Order CUCURBITALES (cucurbits, cucumbers and melons) 2   108
Order DIPSACALES (elder, honeysuckles, valerians, scabiouses and teasels) 21 9 565
Order ERICALES (heaths, heathers, azaleas, primroses, loosestrifes and balsams) 44 39 868
Order ESCALLONIALES (escallonias)     10
Order FABALES (vetches, peas, beans and milkworts) 72 27 1840
Order FAGALES (forest trees) 22 35 5916
Order GARRYALES (tassel bushes) 1   17
Order GENTIANALES (bedstraws, gentians and periwinkles) 25 14 353
Order GERANIALES (geraniums and storksbills) 14    
Family GERANIACEAE (geraniums and storksbills) 14 5 179
Order GUNNERALES (giant rhubarbs, gunneras) 1    
Family GUNNERACEAE (giant rhubarbs, gunneras)   1 9
Order LAMIALES (dead-nettles and speedwells) 118 49 2141
Order MALPIGHIALES (Poplars, willows, St John's worts, spurges and violets) 64 54 2647
Order MALVALES (mallows, limes, daphnes and rockroses) 13 16 531
Order MYRTALES (willowherbs, loosestrifes, gums and tea-trees) 21 35 393
Order OXALIDALES (sorrels) 2   19
Order PROTEALES (plane trees) 2   39
Order RANUNCULALES (buttercups, poppies and barberries) 48 19 732
Order ROSALES (roses, elms, nettles, hops, buckthorns and figs) 81 63 4333
Order SANTALALES (sandalwoods) 3    
Family SANTALACEAE (sandalwoods) 3 2 55
Order SAPINDALES (rues, sumachs, smoke tree, prinde of India and tree of heaven) 7 9 869
Order SAXIFRAGALES (saxifrages, peonies, currants and gooseberries) 26 19 425
Order SOLANALES (bindweeds and nightshades) 23 9 405
Order VITALES (vines and Virgina creepers) 3    
Family VITACEAE (vines and Virgina creepers) 3 4 88
Informal (Broadleaved shrubs) (Broadleaved Shrubs) 137 89 6119
Informal (Broadleaved trees) (Broadleaved, Frondose or Deciduous Trees) 70 90 12770
Informal (Broadleaved trees and shrubs) (Broadleaved Trees and Shrubs) 140 99 7963
Informal (Broadleaved trees, shrubs and climbers) (Broadleaved Trees, Shrubs and Climbers) 157 102 8283
Informal (Ectomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs) (Ectomycorrhizal or Ectotrophic Mycorrhizal Broadleaved Trees and Shrubs) 47 102 8557
Informal (Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs) (Endomycorrhizal or Endotrophic Mycorrhizal Broadleaved Trees and Shrubs) 80 95 7219
Informal (Fruit trees) 2   3
Informal (Fruit Trees - cultivated) 12 6 384
Informal (Fruit Trees - wild) 12   430
Informal (Herbaceous Plants) (Herbaceous Plants) 1237 756 20706
Informal (Soft Fruit) 18 11 1637
Informal (Woody plants) (Subshrubs) 31 42 1316

Suggested Literature

EU-DICOTS may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 PLANTAE
(plants)		 SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)		 MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with EU-DICOTS:

leaf (dead) dead leaf is decayed by immersed, indistinctly clypeate perithecium Anthostomella spartii - a pyrenomycete (Xylariales: Xylariaceae) Kirk, P.M. & Spooner, B.M., 1989
root root is parasitised by underground tuber Orobanche minor - Common Broomrape (Lamiales: Orobanchaceae) Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 [a wide range of hosts including garden plants]
root root is parasitised by underground tuber Orobanche minor var. compositarum - a common broomrape (Lamiales: Orobanchaceae) Stace, C., 1997
root root is parasitised by underground tuber Orobanche minor var. minor - a common broomrape (Lamiales: Orobanchaceae) Stace, C., 1997
stem stem is parasitised by haustorium Cuscuta epithymum - Dodder (Solanales: Convolvulaceae) Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985,
Stace, C., 1997
stem stem is parasitised by haustorium Cuscuta europaea - Greater Dodder (Solanales: Convolvulaceae) Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985,
Stace, C., 1997
wood (rotting) rotting wood may contain Blaniulus guttulatus - Spotted Snake Millipede (Iuliformia: Blaniulidae)

Eu-dicots may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

PLANTAE
(plants)		 SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)		 MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

References

Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 Flora of the British Isles
Kirk, P.M. & Spooner, B.M., 1989 Ascomycetes on leaf litter of Laurus nobilis and Hedera helix
Stace, C., 1997 New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2)
Creative Commons Licence
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.