Anthophyta (Noun)
Meaning
Comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta).
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Botanists classify flowering plants and seed producing plants into Anthophyta, including about 400 families and 250,000 species, some of them edible.
- In a broader sense Anthophyta is considered synonymous with angiosperms or flowering plants that consist of almost 250,000 known species and include the economically and ecologically important groups of plants.
- Angiosperms or Anthophyta in some taxonomic systems are considered one of the divisions of the plant kingdom with hundreds of families and thousands of different type species.
- The great plant families of Anthophyta evolved in many different parts of the world as many present day species in any region originated from ancestral kinds with roots of evolution elsewhere.
- Due to similarity of character members of classes and subdivisions within Anthophyta change names very often with significant new discoveries regarding evolutionary traits by scientists.