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Introduction to the Groups Treated in this Volume K. Kubitzki Introduction to Berberidopsidales gynoecia. The spiral sequence of initiation of floral organs in Berberidopsis, with a tendency of 1. Dioecious tree, young parts covered with ferrugineous arrangement in alternating groups of five, may scales; leaves conduplicate, entire; flowers 5(6)- represent an incipient case of pentamery (Ronse merous, enveloped in bud by firm calyptrate bract; DeCraene 2004) but this is problematic, in view of stamens 5, alternating with nectary glands; gynoecium 1-carpellate; ovules 2, pendulous from apex of locule; the firmly established pentamerous floral structure style apically bifid; fruit dry, indehiscent; seed with characteristic for core eudicots which exists in ruminate endosperm and embryo of about half the parts of Berberidopsidaceae and in the closely length of seed. 1/1, S Chile and adjacent Argentina related Aextoxicum (see Berberidopsidaceae and Aextoxicaceae Aextoxicaceae, this volume). – Scandent shrubs, largely glabrous; leaves involute (Berberidopsis), spiny-toothed or entire; flowers hermaphrodite, acyclic and with disk, or cyclic, pen- tamerous and without disk; gynoecium 3–5-carpellate; ovules several to many, each on 3–5 placentas; style not bifid; fruit berry-like; embryo small. 2/3, S Chile and SE Australia Berberidopsidaceae A close relationship between Berberidopsidaceae and Aextoxicaceae has never been considered un- til gene sequence studies provided strong support for a relationship between them (see family treat- ments). In the four-gene analysis of eudic