Amborella trichopoda

Common name: Amborella

Family: Amborellaceae

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Country of Origin: New Caledonia

Description: Wood of Amborella lacks the vessels characteristic of most flowering plants. Amborella is of great interest to plant systematists because molecular phylogenetic analyses consistently place it at or near the base of the flowering plant lineage. That is, the Amborellaceae represent a line of flowering plants that diverged very early on (about 130 million years ago) from all the other extant species of flowering plants, and, among extant flowering plants, is the sister group to the other flowering plants.⁴

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Source: Teddi Bloniarz - UMass Amherst

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Classification:

• Division: Magnoliophyta
• Class: Magnoliopsida
• SubClass: basal angiosperms
• Order: Amborellales
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• Family: Amborellaceae
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References:

1. The Plant List (2010). Version 1.1. Accessed 15 July 2015.
2. WCSP (2013). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
3. Amborella trichopoda. (2013, September 3). Wikispecies, . Retrieved 12:30, November 1, 2013
4. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, 2013-07-01. Accessed on 2013-11-01
5. Grosse-Veldmann, B; Korotkova, N; Reinken, B; Lobin, W & Barthlott, W; Amborella trichopoda - Cultivation of the Most Ancestral Angiosperm in Botanic Gardens, Sibbaldia #9, pg 143-155, 2011. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 05, 2017.
6. Image #00 (cropped) and #01 (original) by Scott Zona from Miami, Florida, USA (Amborella trichopoda) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 05, 2017.

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