Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 130 million years ago · the last 3.1% of life's story
- Named
- ≈28,000 named living species · 1.6% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Plants (mostly land plants) (≈450 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · plants and algae
Orchids
Living · roughly 28,000 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
The largest family of flowering plants, vanilla included.
- Branched off
- About 130 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Monocots
Classification
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