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Article: Angiosperms
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Angiosperms
The angiosperms, or flowering plants (division Anthophyta or Magnoliophyta), comprise more than 230,000 species and are thus by far the largest division of plants; they represent the dominant group of land plants today. In both vegetative and floral
morphology
the angiosperms are highly diverse. In size, for example, they range from the duckweeds (the genus
Lemna
), which are roughly one millimeter in length, to
Eucalyptus
trees, which are well over one hundred meters. Although all are characterized by the possession of flowers, these structures are also highly diverse in form and size. The smallest flowers are less than a millimeter in size (the flowers of duckweeds) while ...
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