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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...
- 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...
- Amborellaceae, and
there is only one genus,
Amborella, and in this
genus there is only one species,
Amborella trichopoda. The
flowering plant Breonadia...
- 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...
- 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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million years ago.
Recent DNA
analysis (molecular systematics)
shows that
Amborella trichopoda,
found on the
Pacific island of New Caledonia, is the only...
- "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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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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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...
