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      The flowering plants (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies (derived characteristics). These characteristics include flowers, endosperm within the seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from gymnosperms around 245–202 million years ago, and the first flowering plants known to exist are from 140 million years ago. They diversified enormously during the Lower Cretaceous and became widespread around 100 million years ago, but replaced conifers as the dominant trees only around 60–100 million years ago.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_plant
Liquidambar europaeaBůžek (1971), Pl. 18, fig. 7foto ČB455
Liquidambar europaeaBůžek (1971), Pl. 19, fig. 1 ČB269
Liquidambar europaeaAD Bůžek (1971) ČB244
Liquidambar europaeaBůžek (1971), Pl. 17, fig. 14foto ČB255
Liquidambar europaeum p2795
Liriodendron haueri Ettingshausen, 1869Bůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. III, fig. 7 ČB699
Liriodendron haueri Ettingshausen, 1869Bůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. III, fig. 1 ČB698
Liriodendron haueri Ettingshausen, 1869Bůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. III, fig. 5 ČB696
Liriodendron haueri Ettingshausen, 1869Bůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. III, fig. 2 ČB692
Liriodendron haueri Ettingshausen, 1869Bůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. III, fig. 7 ČB690
Liriodendron haueri Ettingshausen, 1869Bůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. II, fig. 12 ČB697
Magnoliacae MP203
MagnoliacaeBůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. IV, fig. 2 ČB597
MagnoliacaeBůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. IV, fig. 4 ČB595
MagnoliacaeKvaček a Walther (2004), Pl. 14, fig. 1 MP13
MagnoliacaeBůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl. X, fig. 2 ČB598
Magnoliacae MP208
MagnoliacaeBůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl IV, fig. 6 ČB646
MagnoliacaeBůžek, Holý, Kvaček (1976) Pl IV, fig. 1 ČB655
Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takhtajan & W. Zimmermann, 1966 e21

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