Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 110 million years ago · the last 2.6% of life's story
- Named
- ≈32,000 named living species · 1.9% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · plants and algae
Sunflowers and daisies
Living · roughly 32,000 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Each sunflower head is hundreds of tiny flowers packed together.
- Branched off
- About 110 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Asterids
Classification
- First common ancestor (LUCA)
- › Archaea
- › Asgard archaea
- › Heimdall and complex-cell line
- › Complex cells (eukaryotes)
- › Diaphoretickes
- › Algae and plants
- › Green plants
- › Streptophytes
- › Land plants
- › Vascular plants
- › Euphyllophytes
- › Seed plants
- › Flowering plants
- › Core flowering plants
- › Eudicots
- › Asterids
- › Sunflowers and daisies
Sources
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project