Sentences with phrase «of eudicots»
Relationships of Caryophyllales to other major clades of eudicots remain unclear.
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Scientists use pollen as a marker of geologic time and environmental conditions, so a change in the evolutionary sequence of eudicots and their pollen could have important implications for many types of analyses.
The compound leaves of Potomacapnos apeleutheron identify the 120 million - year - old plant fossil as the earliest known North American member of the eudicots, the largest group of flowering plants.
Not exact matches
The researchers also reconstructed what flowers looked like at all the key divergences in the flowering plant evolutionary tree, including the early evolution of monocots (e.g., orchids, lilies, and grasses) and eudicots (e.g., poppies, roses, and sunflowers), the two largest groups of flowering plants.
One feature all eudicots share is the shape of their pollen grains, which have three pores through which the plant's sperm cells are released.
Hickey, a former director of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, agreed the plant is an early eudicot.
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).