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angiosperm

any member of the class Angiospermae, in which the seeds are enclosed in an ovary The class contains the most advanced vascular plants. Each member of the class is either a MONOCOTYLEDON (e.g. grasses, tulips) or a DICOTYLEDON (e.g. apple, primrose). See PLANT KINGDOM for a more complete classification.
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I shall now demonstrate the practice of such comparative typology at hand of the phylogenetic relations between the types of bryophytes and ferns and between the different types of angiospermous synflorescences.
The options of plant organisms for the development of new types or typogenesis in plants
In most conifers micropyle sealing is followed, but less rapidly, with enclosure of the developing embryo and seed by enlargement of cone scales, or other tissues, so that plants now become angiospermous (Table 1).
Rescuing Robert Brown--the origins of angio-ovuly in seed cones of conifers
Hypostase development in Ornithogalum caudatum (Liliaceae) and notes on other types of modifications in the chalaza of angiospermous ovules.
Morphology and anatomy of the developing fruit and seed of Dalechampia stipulacea Mull. Arg. (Euphorbiaceae)/Morfologia e anatomia do fruto e semente em desenvolvimento de Dalechampia stipulacea Mull. Arg. (Euphorbiaceae)
del 1 al 7 de agosto donde presento el trabajo "The constructional patterns of the flowering and vegetative growth units (FVU) conforming angiospermous plants".
Discurso pronunciado por el presidente de la academia, Dr. Luis Eduardo Mora-Osejo, durante la sesion solemne estatutaria celebrada el 18 de agosto de 1999
Thin porous membranes in end walls of tracheids--and then vessels--may be the angiospermous compensation for lack of the margo spaces that conifers have.
Monocot xylem revisited: new information, new paradigms
About 250 fossil pollen types related to 113 extant angiospermous families from the Cretaceous and the Tertiary in China are discussed in
Fossil pollen records of extant angiosperms in China

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