order Gnetales
chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms • Syn: Gnetales • Hypernyms: plant order • Member Holonyms: Gnetopsida, class Gnetopsida, Gnetophytina, subdivision Gnetophytina, Gnetophyta • Member Meronyms: Gnetaceae, family Gnetaceae, Ephedraceae, family Ephedraceae, Welwitschiaceae, family Welwitschiaceae
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