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Flowering plant

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The Magnoliophyta are a division of plants distinguished by the presence of flowers. They are also called the Anthophyta or Angiospermata, but in modern botany groups are always named after their type genus, in this case Magnolia.

Systematics

The most prevalent classification of flowers still seems to be that in the 1981 work by Arthur Cronquist, An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants.
Recent findings have questioned many of the groupings. On this page Walter S. Judd et al are followed as one of the more prevalent of the revised schemes. These are based on the hypotheses of Willie Hennig.
For a discussion of the difficulties see the copyrighted article Taxonomy, Classification, and the Debate about Cladistics at http://artemis.austinc.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/taxonomy.html
Hopefully notes on the differences between the various versions will be added where possible.

See also flowers, fruit, vegetables, herbs, spices, trees, and other groupings of convenience.

Basal flowers

Monocots (Liliopsida)

Eudicots

Note: Classification of dicots varies considerably under different schemes. See Magnoliopsida for Cronquist's system, which includes the forms here considered basal flowers.

Non-core eudicots

Core eudicots


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