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Also called ''Angiospermae''. The ancestor … Also called ''Angiospermae''. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from gymnosperms around 245–202 million years ago, and the first flowering plants known to exist are from 140 million years ago. They diversified enormously during the Lower Cretaceous and became widespread around 100 million years ago, but replaced conifers as the dominant trees only around 60-100 million years ago.rees only around 60-100 million years ago. +
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Division/Phylum +
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| Taxon morphology details
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These are seed plants like Gymnosperms, but can be differentiated by the presence of flowers, seeds containing endosperm and seeds that produce a fruit. Angiosperms are the most diverse and highly evolutionarily successful group of land plants. +
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Magnoliophyta +
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| Taxon neighbors
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Anthocerotophyta +
, Bacillariophyta +
, Bryophyta +
, Chlorophyta +
, Cyanidiophyta +
, Cycadophyta +
, Equisetophyta +
, Ginkgophyta +
, Glaucophyta +
, Gnetophyta +
, Hepatophyta +
, Lycopodiophyta +
, Not assigned +
, Pinophyta +
, Prasinophyta +
, Psilophyta +
, fern +
, Rhodophyta +
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| Has queryThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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Magnoliophyta +
, Magnoliophyta +
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Higher level taxa +
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| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki.
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2 February 2011 18:05:37 +
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