Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ˌændʒiəˈspərmiː/), commonly called angiosperms. They include...
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genetic structure of nonclonal plant populations. Christian Konrad Sprengel (1793) studied the reproduction of flowering plants and for the first time it was...
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reproduction of flowering plants, the first is the timing of flowering and the other is the size or number of flowers produced. Often plant species have...
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liverworts, mosses, lycophytes, ferns, conifers and other gymnosperms, and flowering plants). A definition based on genomes includes the Viridiplantae, along with...
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Flowering synchrony is the amount of overlap between flowering periods of plants in their mating season compared to what would be expected to occur randomly...
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Hermaphrodite (redirect from Hermaphroditic plant)
known hermaphroditic species among mammals or birds. About 94% of flowering plant species are either hermaphroditic (all flowers produce both male and...
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A biennial plant is a flowering plant that, generally in a temperate climate, takes two years to complete its biological life cycle. In its first year...
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included only flowering plants possessing seeds enclosed in capsules, distinguished from his Gymnospermae, which were flowering plants with achenial or...
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Botany (redirect from Plant biology)
species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately...
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Sexual reproduction (redirect from Sexual reproduction in flowering plants)
angiosperms have as few as three cells in each pollen grain. Flowering plants are the dominant plant form on land: 168, 173 and they reproduce either sexually...
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parasitic plants in approximately 20 families of flowering plants are known. There is a wide range of effects that may occur to a host plant due to the...
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history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land...
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plants, such as wood formation. Biennial plant – Flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological life cycle Perennial plant – Plant that...
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bryophylla is the highest flowering plant in the world, occurring as high as 6,180 m (20,280 ft). To survive, alpine plants are adapted to the conditions...
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Perennial (redirect from Perennial plant)
exceeding two years in the botanical world. Perennials—especially small flowering plants—that grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back every autumn...
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Coevolution (redirect from Insect-flowering plant coevolution)
between flowering plants and insects in On the Origin of Species (1859). Although he did not use the word coevolution, he suggested how plants and insects...
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in animal evolution but, with plants, it is often overlooked because many plants are hermaphrodites. Flowering plants show many characteristics that...
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division of plants, with upwards of 400,000 species. For two-dimensional area, the largest known clonal flowering plant, and indeed largest plant and organism...
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Spikenard (redirect from Nardin (plant))
amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China...
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Dicotyledon (redirect from Dicotyledonous Plants)
more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the...
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Arecaceae (redirect from Palm (plant))
of perennial, flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known...
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Acanthus is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, native to tropical and warm temperate regions, with the highest...
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Fertilisation (section Flowering plants)
through the pollen tube to the ovule where the egg is fertilised. In flowering plants, two sperm cells are released from the pollen tube, and a second fertilisation...
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Sex (redirect from Sex in plants)
development of the embryonic plant. The flowers of flowering plants contain their sexual organs. Most flowering plants are hermaphroditic, with both...
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Agave americana (redirect from Century Plant)
Agave americana, commonly known as the century plant, maguey, or American aloe, is a flowering plant species belonging to the family Asparagaceae. It...
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Monstera deliciosa (redirect from Fruit Salad Plant)
Monstera deliciosa, the Swiss cheese plant or split-leaf philodendron is a species of flowering plant native to tropical forests of southern Mexico, south...
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Pilea peperomioides (redirect from Chinese Money Plant)
pɛpəˌroʊmiˈɔɪdiːz/), the Chinese money plant, UFO plant, pancake plant, lefse plant or missionary plant, is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae...
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Physostegia virginiana (redirect from Obedient plant)
Physostegia virginiana, the obedient plant, obedience or false dragonhead, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native...
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Hypoestes phyllostachya (redirect from Polka Dot Plant)
Hypoestes phyllostachya, the polka dot plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae, native to South Africa, Madagascar, and south...
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