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Flowering plants

      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
Pseudoprotophyllum sononeneAD, Knobloch (1964) p3042
Pungiphyllum cruciatumKvaček a Walther (2004) text. fig. 12, 1 MP34
Pungiphyllum cruciatum MP136
Pungiphyllum cruciatum MP78
Pyracantha krauselii MP176
Pyracantha krauselii MP87
Pyracantha krauselii MP190
Pyracantha krauseliiKvaček a Walther (2004), Pl. 16 fig. 5 MP26
Quercophyllum eg. gr. sapotacitesdaphnes p4379
Quercophyllum triangulidenta p2944
Quercophyllum triangulidentaKnobloch (1964), Pl. 1, fig. 3 p2952
Quercophyllum triangulidentaAD, Knobloch (1964) p2967
Quercus cruciataBůžek (1971), Pl. 45, fig. 7, 8 ČB175
Quercus cruciataBůžek (1971), Pl. 45, fig. 5, 6 ČB147
Quercus lonchitis p4394
Quercus lusaticaBůžek (1971), Pl. 16, fig. 7 ČB72
Quercus lusaticaBůžek (1971), Pl. 16, fig. 5-6 ČB74
Quercus lusaticaBůžek (1971), Pl. 16, fig. 4 ČB85
Raskya vetusta ČB547
RhamnusBůžek (1971), Pl. 32, fig. 7 ČB166
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