Grasses

Timed: Branched off about 130 million years ago · the last 3.1% of life's story
Named: ≈12,000 named living species · 0.7% of all named
Weighed: Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.

Eukaryotes · plants and algae

Living · roughly 12,000 described species

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Wheat, rice and maize: most of what people eat grows on this branch.