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Whereas most people, at least in the west, seem to have a broad appreciation of animal
relationships, the same is not true of plants. Taking a phylogenetic (rather than a
taxonomic) view of the kingdom Plantae, in broad terms it looks something like this:
Many of the familiar plants in our daily lives – apple trees and roses, beech and
oak, mint and bay – are dicotyledons. Together with the grasses, they comprise the
Subphylum Magnoliophytina (angiosperms) which evolved in the Cretaceous and may have even
played a role in the extinction of the dinosaurs. |
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Biology Page >> Plantae
