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Amborellaceae

Called “amborella family” in GBIF

1
accepted species in GBIF
Source: GBIF
1
genera in GBIF
Source: GBIF
1
plant on Plant News
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Plants in this family

1 plant

Genera in this family

With one plant each: Amborella (Amborella).

Research on Amborellaceae

1 article
bioRxiv → · preprint

The origin of mechanical advantage in angiosperms

Every tomato, apple, and oak in your yard owes its ability to thrive in heat and drought partly t...

What science is finding about Amborellaceae

Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this family, newest first.

Latest finding

The origin of mechanical advantage in angiosperms

A key mechanism that lets flowering plants open their stomata wide — and thus grow faster and more productively — originated once, in the very first flowering plant ancestor, and has been present in all angiosperms ever since. This trait likely enabled the explosive success of flowering plants on Earth.