The gymnosperms (/ˈdʒɪmnəˌspɜːrmz, -noʊ-/ JIM-nə-spurmz, -noh-; lit. 'revealed seeds') are a group of seed-producing plants that includes conifers, cycads...
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sitchensis". Gymnosperm Database. "Doerner Fir – Tallest Douglas Fir". Retrieved 2013-02-25. "Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii". Gymnosperm Database....
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vary widely despite still being considered part of the gametophyte. In gymnosperms, the male gametophytes are produced inside microspores within the microsporangia...
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Mesozoic (redirect from Age of gymnosperms)
Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. It is characterized by the dominance of gymnosperms and of archosaurian reptiles, such as the dinosaurs; a hot greenhouse...
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The gymnosperms consist of five orders of seed plants: Cupressales, Cycadales, Ginkgoales, Gnetales and Pinales. They developed more than 350 million...
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referred to as the subclass Dicotyledons into two tribes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. In the gymnosperms (or Gymnospermae) Lindley included two orders, the...
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arizonica (Arizona pine, pino de Arizona) description – I The Gymnosperm Database". The Gymnosperm Database. Retrieved 9 August 2018. Earle, Christopher J....
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Ginkgoopsida is a proposed class of gymnosperms defined by Sergei V. Meyen in 1984 to encompass Ginkgoales (which contains the living Ginkgo) alongside...
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that itself is surrounded by a fleshy fruit (e.g. almonds, walnuts); Gymnosperm seeds: naked seeds, with no enclosure (e.g. pine nuts); Angiosperm: seeds...
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photosynthesis. Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants). Scientific...
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Softwood is wood from gymnosperm trees such as conifers. The term is opposed to hardwood, which is the wood from angiosperm trees. The main differences...
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J. "Sequoia sempervirens". Gymnosperm Database. Retrieved 2017-12-30. Earle, Christopher J. "Agathis australis". Gymnosperm Database. "Giant tree stats"...
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Angiosperms are distinguished from the other seed-producing plants, the gymnosperms, by having flowers, xylem consisting of vessel elements instead of tracheids...
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(which comes from angiosperm trees) contrasts with softwood (which is from gymnosperm trees). Hardwoods are produced by angiosperm trees that reproduce by flowers...
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of the familiar land plants, including the flowering plants and the gymnosperms, but not ferns, mosses, or algae. The term phanerogam or phanerogamae...
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applied to the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, such as the spores of fungi,...
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of tree species are angiosperms or hardwoods; of the rest, many are gymnosperms or softwoods. Trees tend to be long-lived, some reaching several thousand...
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(hornworts, liverworts, mosses, lycophytes, ferns, conifers and other gymnosperms, and flowering plants). A definition based on genomes includes the Viridiplantae...
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considered the subclass Gnetidae or order Gnetales), grouped within the gymnosperms (which also includes conifers, cycads, and ginkgos), that consists of...
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placentae are on inner surfaces of multilocular ovary (e.g. Nymphaea) In gymnosperms such as conifers, ovules are borne on the surface of an ovuliferous (ovule-bearing)...
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Plant stem (section Gymnosperm stems)
secondary growth. All gymnosperms are woody plants. Their stems are similar in structure to woody dicots except that most gymnosperms produce only tracheids...
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"Sequoia sempervirens". The Gymnosperm Database. Retrieved August 12, 2011. Earle, CJ (2011). "Pinus longaeva". The Gymnosperm Database. Retrieved August...
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at the stigma of a flower (in flowering plants) or at the ovule (in gymnosperms). There are two types of self-pollination: in autogamy, pollen is transferred...
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ˈɡɪŋkɡoʊ/ GINK-oh, -goh), also known as the maidenhair tree, is a species of gymnosperm tree native to East Asia. It is the last living species in the order Ginkgoales...
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Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/pɪˈnɒfɪtə, ˈpaɪnoʊfaɪtə/)...
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species provide edible seeds; most are angiosperms, while a few are gymnosperms. As a global food source, the most important edible seeds by weight are...
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coincident with the decline and extinction of previously widespread gymnosperm groups. The Cretaceous (along with the Mesozoic) ended with the Cretaceous–Paleogene...
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are China, Russia, North Korea, Pakistan and Afghanistan. As pines are gymnosperms, not angiosperms (flowering plants), pine nuts are not "true nuts"; they...
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Gnetales (gymnosperm) Welwitschia (gymnosperm)...
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Seed (section Gymnosperms)
reproduced using spores. The earliest seed bearing plants to appear were the gymnosperms, which have no ovaries to contain the seeds. They arose during the late...
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