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Piperales
Piperales
Translingual
Proper noun
Piperales
- A taxonomic order within the clade magnoliids – many woody vines and shrubs that yield an ethereal oil; includes the black pepper.
Hypernyms
- (order): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, magnoliids - clades
Hyponyms
- (order): Aristolochiaceae, Hydnoraceae, Lactoridaceae, Piperaceae, Saururaceae - families
References
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521