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 …

The flowering plant family Hydatellaceae was recently discovered to be allied to the ancient
angiosperm lineage Nymphaeales (water lilies). Because of its critical phylogenetic position …

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

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 …

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 …

Water lilies belong to the angiosperm order Nymphaeales. Amborellales, Nymphaeales and
Austrobaileyales together form the so-called ANA-grade of angiosperms, which are extant …

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

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

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 …

Most of the 470-million-year history of plants on land belongs to bryophytes, pteridophytes
and gymnosperms, which eventually yielded to the ecological dominance by angiosperms …