Scientific name: Marchantia polymorpha
Common name(s): common liverwort
Name as shown in Phylogenes: common liverwort
Ploidy: Diploid
Description:
Amborella trichopoda is a small, vascular land plant that is endemic to the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia.
Amborella, is the sole extant representative of the most basal clade of Angiosperms. As such, it plays an important role in understanding plant gene function and evolution of flowering plants.
Reference(s):
Amborella Genome Project. The Amborella genome and the evolution of flowering plants. Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1241089. doi: 10.1126/science.1241089.
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