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    Amborella is a monotypic genus of understory shrubs or small trees endemic to the main island, Grande Terre, of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific...
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  • Amborellaceae, and there is only one genus, Amborella, and in this genus there is only one species, Amborella trichopoda. The flowering plant Breonadia...
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    most basal angiosperms were called the ANITA grade, which is made up of Amborella (a single species of shrub from New Caledonia), Nymphaeales (water lilies...
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    to set fruit and produce berries, this has consequences for gardeners. Amborella represents the first known group of flowering plants to separate from...
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  • does indeed correlate with an unusual number of ancestral traits, as in Amborella (see below). This is likely a source of the mis-use of the term. Other...
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    million years ago. Recent DNA analysis (molecular systematics) shows that Amborella trichopoda, found on the Pacific island of New Caledonia, is the only...
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    "Reconstructing the ancestral female gametophyte of angiosperms: Insights from Amborella and other ancient lineages of flowering plants". American Journal of Botany...
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    flowering plants near the base of the flowering plant lineage, such as Amborella and Nymphaea (as well as with many more recently derived plants, such...
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    Caledonia also has the world's most divergent lineage of flowering plant, Amborella trichopoda, which is at, or near, the base of the clade of all flowering...
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    believed to be the ancestral condition in flowering plants. For example, Amborella, which is thought to have separated earliest in the evolution of flowering...
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    Abnormally small 4 celled, 4 nucleate angiosperm female gametophyte (ex. Amborella trichopoda). E: Unusual gymnosperm female gametophyte that is singled...
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    Nymphaeales, which is the second diverging group of angiosperms after Amborella in the most widely accepted flowering plant classification system, APG...
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    and Araucaria) Cycads Ginkgo tree (Ginkgoaceae) Welwitschia Angiosperms Amborella – a plant from New Caledonia, possibly closest to base of the flowering...
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    flowering plants called basal angiosperms or paleodicots; these include Amborella, Magnolia, nutmeg and avocado, while trees such as bamboo, palms and bananas...
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    Spermatophytes Clade: Angiosperms Groups included Eudicots Magnoliids Amborella Nymphaeales Austrobaileyales Chloranthales Ceratophyllum Cladistically...
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    most inclusive crown clade containing Platanus occidentalis, but not Amborella trichopoda, Nymphaea odorata, or Austrobaileya scandens. It is sometimes...
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    the distantly related sunbittern of South America, and plants such as Amborella trichopoda, the only known member of the most basal living branch of flowering...
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    the source of nutmeg, was important in the 17th-century spice trade. Amborella may represent the earliest-diverging order of flowering plants. From the...
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    During some or all of the 20th century, the Laurales generally included Amborella and the plants now classified in Austrobaileyales and Chloranthaceae....
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  • wood. Tension wood may have as high as 60% cellulose. In gymnosperms and amborella it is called compression wood. Compression wood forms on the side of the...
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  • event was studied by sequencing the genome of an ancient flowering plant, Amborella trichopoda. Many paleobotanists consider the Caytoniales, a group of "seed...
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    doi:10.1038/ncomms16047. PMC 5543309. PMID 28763051. Amborella Genome Project (20 Dec 2013). "The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants". Science...
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    Amborella...
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    Amborella...
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    (Cyathea novae-caledoniae), or the tallest in the world, Cyathea intermedia. Amborella has emerged as of great interest to plant systematists because molecular...
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    Greek shepherdess from classical poetry Asparagales CS Amborellaceae Amborella – Malagasy plant name Amborellales Anacampserotaceae Anacampseros G Greek...
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    older, that being the woody New Caledonian shrub Amborella trichopoda. The predominant view that Amborella represents the oldest flowering plant was recently...
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  • 1534/g3.119.400083. PMC 6643874. PMID 31217262. Amborella Genome Project (December 2013). "The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants"....
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    discussion of the family. Perkins defined the family very broadly, to include Amborella, Trimenia, and Piptocalyx. These are now regarded as basal angiosperms...
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    event was studied by sequencing the genome of an ancient flowering plant, Amborella trichopoda. The core eudicots also shared a common whole genome triplication...
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