The major diversification of flowering plants (angiosperms) in the Early Cretaceous, between
about 130 and 90 million years ago, initiated fundamental changes in terrestrial ecosystems …

FLOWERING plants or angiosperms have dominated the Earth's flora since at least the late
Cretaceous1 and were already highly diversified by Barremian times, about 120 million …

Although the pattern of the early angiosperm radiation has been substantially clarified by
palaeobotanical and stratigraphic investigations over the last 30 years1–3, knowledge of …

Here we discuss recent advances surrounding the origin of angiosperms. Putatively
primitive characters are now much better understood because of a vastly improved …

Angiosperms have dominated the Earth's vegetation since the mid-Cretaceous (90 million
years ago), providing much of our food, fibre, medicine and timber, yet their origin and early …

Recent advances in angiosperm phylogeny reconstruction,,, palaeobotany, and comparative
organismic biology,, have provided the impetus for a major re-evaluation of the earliest …

The current molecular systematics of angiosperms recognizes the basal angiosperms and
five major angiosperm lineages: the Chloranthaceae, the magnoliids, the monocots …

Although the relationship of angiosperms to other seed plants remains controversial, great
progress has been made in identifying the earliest extant splits in flowering-plant phylogeny …

Phylogenetic analyses have identified the water lilies (Nymphaeales: Cabombaceae and
Nymphaeaceae), together with four other small groups of flowering plants (the 'ANITA …

Angiosperms (flowering plants) are the most diverse of all major lineages of land plants and
the dominant autotrophs in most terrestrial ecosystems. Their evolutionary and ecological …