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Accession Data:

Amborella trichopoda Baill.

  • Common Name: Amborella
  • Family: Amborellaceae Pichon.

  • Country of Origin: New Caledonia

  • Description: Wood of Amborella lacks the vessels characteristic of most flowering plants. Amborella is of great interest to plant systematists because molecular phylogenetic analyses consistently place it at or near the base of the flowering plant lineage. That is, the Amborellaceae represent a line of flowering plants that diverged very early on (about 130 million years ago) from all the other extant species of flowering plants, and, among extant flowering plants, is the sister group to the other flowering plants.4

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201300013
  • Source: Teddi Bloniarz - UMass Amherst
  • Recorded Vouchers:
    1. Voucher CONN00227299 at George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN). Specimen collected 18 Sept. 2019. Herbarium Image
  • Accession Date: 03-26-2013
  • Bench: 3110 - EVO: Tropical Conifers & Ginkgo
    • Currently: active - marginal
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-29-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: basal angiosperms
  • Order: Amborellales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Amborellaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019

References (internal):

  • Basal Angiosperms (paleodicots)
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • The Human Epoch; Living in the Anthropocene
  • Plants with Vouchers deposited in CONN
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: New Caledonia

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2010). Version 1.1. Accessed 15 July 2015.
  2. WCSP (2013). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  3. Amborella trichopoda. (2013, September 3). Wikispecies, . Retrieved 12:30, November 1, 2013
  4. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, 2013-07-01. Accessed on 2013-11-01
  5. Grosse-Veldmann, B; Korotkova, N; Reinken, B; Lobin, W & Barthlott, W; Amborella trichopoda - Cultivation of the Most Ancestral Angiosperm in Botanic Gardens, Sibbaldia #9, pg 143-155, 2011. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 05, 2017.
  6. Image #00 (cropped) and #01 (original) by Scott Zona from Miami, Florida, USA (Amborella trichopoda) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, July 05, 2017.

data regenerated on Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:51:53 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Amborella trichopoda

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