A ‘TIME-TREE’ OF EARTH’S FLOWERING PLANTS
Aug 27, 2020
2 minutes
WORDS BY KAREN MCGHEE
here are now more than 400 families of flowering plants on Earth, encompassing at least 13,000 genera and 300,000 species. These form the basis of most land-based food webs, which support most of Earth’s terrestrial animals, including, of course, humans.
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