Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 115 million years ago · the last 2.7% of life's story
- Named
- ≈20,000 named living species · 1.1% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · plants and algae
Legumes
Living · roughly 20,000 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Beans and peas, with root bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air.
- Branched off
- About 115 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Rosids
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
- › Rosids
- › Legumes
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