International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 161, No. S6, Current Perspectives on Basal Angiosperms (November 2000), pp. S97-S107 (11 pages) Patterns and trends in angiosperm evolution can only be ...

The categories glycophyte, intolerant halophyte, facultative halophyte, and obligate halophyte were defined in relative terms. An obligate halophyte was defined as a plant with optimal growth at ...

PROF. T. M. HARRIS, in his recent presidential address to Section K (Botany) of the British Association 1, has directed attention to the successive failure of attempts to find fossils which appear to ...

The discovery of exceptionally well-preserved, tiny fossil seeds dating back to the Early Cretaceous corroborates that flowering plants were small opportunistic colonizers at that time, according to a ...

Fossils of angiosperms first appear in the fossil record about 140 million years ago. Based on the material in which these fossils are deposited, early angiosperms must have been weedy, fast-growing ...