The discovery of exceptionally well-preserved, tiny fossil seeds dating back to the Early Cretaceous corroborates that flowering plants were small opportunistic colonizers at that time, according to a ...

Water lilies are beautiful aquatic flowering plants that are distributed worldwide. These plants are found in the aquatic section of nearly every botanic garden because of their highly valued ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- The most ancient known flowering plant on earth wasn't very pretty by today's standards. A team of scientists analyzed fossilized specimens discovered a century ago in ...

"...the present volume is issued, not as Part II of Morphology of Spermatophytes, but as an independent volume entitled Morphology of Angiosperms; and any subsequent ...

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Vol. 71, No. 2, Historical Perspectives of Angiosperm Evolution (1984), pp. 607-630 (24 pages) The functional/phylogenetic relationship between the angiosperm ...

The biota of Hawaiian Islands is derived entirely from long distance dispersal, often followed by in situ speciation. Species descended from each colonist constitute monophyletic lineages that have ...