Knowra Rosales Rosales Rosales is an order of flowering plants that includes roses, elms, nettles, and mulberries. Its members range from herbs to trees and include economically important fruits and fibers.
Rosid : A major clade of flowering plants that includes Rosales and several other orders. Rosales belongs to this broad flowering-plant lineage.
Flower : The reproductive structure of angiosperms, containing organs that produce gametes and enable seed formation. Floral structure supplies many characters used to compare Rosales families.
Fig : The edible fruit-like infructescence of Ficus carica, a tree native to western Asia and the Mediterranean. The common fig is a cultivated Moraceae member within Rosales.
Fossil : Preserved remains, impressions, or traces of organisms from the geological past. Fossil evidence helps date the diversification of Rosales lineages.
Rosaceae : A flowering-plant family that includes roses, apples, cherries, and many other plants. This familiar family is one of Rosales' constituent lineages.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group : An international collaboration that publishes evidence-based classifications of flowering plants. Its classification places families into the modern order Rosales.
Mulberry : The edible fruit of trees in the genus Morus, cultivated in temperate and subtropical regions. Mulberries are food crops from the Moraceae branch of the order.
Cretaceous : The geological period from about 145 to 66 million years ago, when flowering plants diversified greatly. Rosales belongs to flowering-plant lineages that diversified during this interval.
Moraceae : A flowering-plant family that includes mulberries, figs, breadfruit, and paper mulberry. Moraceae is a major family within the order.
Molecular phylogenetics : The reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. Sequence comparisons clarified relationships among families once grouped differently.
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