Hydatellaceae are water lilies with gymnospermous tendencies

William E. Friedman ()
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William E. Friedman: University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7191, 94-97

Abstract: An early flowering relic Hydatellaceae, a group of inconspicuous water plants, were recently found to be very primitive, part of the initial emergence of flowering plants in the Mesozoic era. Now, William Friedman demonstrates that the plant Hydatella shows a number of rare embryological features which, in combination, are found only in members of the equally primitive Nymphaeales (water lilies). But Hydatella has an additional feature — provisioning of the seed from maternal rather than embryonic tissue — that is unique among flowering plants but common in gymnosperms (conifers and allies). This could be a relic of the early evolutionary history of flowering plants.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1038/nature06733

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