Sentences with phrase «flowering plants as a whole»

Givnish and his colleagues found that initially, orchids speciated no more rapidly than their closest relatives, and at a slow rate relative to flowering plants as a whole.

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These plants are distinctive as the fig's flowers are encapsulated on the inside of its fruit and pollinated by wasps whereas the nasturtium's feathery flowers of striking color belie its seeming weed like ability to overtake whole hillsides.