This reveals a greater ecological diversity in an early mammaliaform clade at a more fundamental taxonomic level not only between
major clades as previously thought.
Not exact matches
The other lineage (known
as Euphyllophyta) includes two
major clades: the spermatophytes or seed plants (including more than 250,000 species of angiosperms [flowering plants], conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and the Gingko) and the monilophytes or ferns (sensu lato, including the horsetails, whisk ferns, and eusporangiate and leptosporangiate ferns, with most of the roughly 12,000 monilophyte species being leptosporangiate ferns).
To draw together our current understanding of wood function, we identify and collate data on the
major wood functional traits, including the largest wood density database to date (8412 taxa), mechanical strength measures and anatomical features,
as well
as clade - specific features such
as secondary chemistry.
They have alternatively been considered to be close relatives of rosids, asterids, or Santalales and are best regarded at this time simply
as one of the
major clades of core eudicots (e.g., D. Soltis et al. 2000).