Sentences with phrase «called angiosperms»

The researchers recently mapped out the largest evolutionary time - scaled tree that included leaf and stem data which documented 32,000 species of flowering plants, also called angiosperms.

Flowering plants, also called angiosperms, arose at least 160 million years ago and quickly spread; today, they number more than 300,000 species that adorn the landscape and feed the world.

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Dogma in the field maintains that angiosperms, as flowering plants are called, evolved from shrubs that resembled modern magnolia trees.

When Charles Darwin looked at the fossil record, he was amazed at how many different kinds of angiosperms evolved so quickly, calling this burst «an abominable mystery.»