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Archaefructaceae, a New Basal Angiosperm Family
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Archaefructaceae is proposed as a new basal angiosperm family of herbaceous aquatic plants. This family consists of the fossils Archaefructus liaoningensis and A . sinensis sp. nov. Complete plants from roots to fertile shoots are known. Their age is a minimum of 124.6 million years from the Yixian Formation, Liaoning, China. They are a sister clade to all angiosperms when their characters are included in a combined three-gene molecular and morphological analysis. Their reproductive axes lack petals and sepals and bear stamens in pairs below conduplicate carpels.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sun, G., Ji, Q., Dilcher, D. L., Zheng, S., Nixon, K. C., & Wang, X.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2002-05-03
- Volume
- 296
- Issue
- 5569
- Pages
- 899-904
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2147453581
- Cited by
- 462
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 27.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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