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#illicium verum

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Star anise (Illicium verum) belongs to order

Illicium verum producing star-shaped aggregate of follicles rich aromatic anethole belongs to Austrobaileyales family Schisandraceae sensu APG IV expansion including Illiciaceae, not Magnoliales featuring Magnoliaceae Annonaceae, Piperales featuring Piperaceae pepper, or Nymphaeales featuring water lilies Nymphaeaceae. Austrobaileyales distinguished by trimerous spiral flowers, essential oil cells, nodal anatomy trilacunar with three leaf traces, vessels with scalariform perforations primitive, pollen monosulcate. Illicium ovule anatropous bitegmic, endosperm formation cellular, chemistry lign

Ref: APG IV 2016, Austrobaileyales Schisandraceae Illicium placement star anise order