Angiosperms. Phanerogams. Vegetables, plants. Vegetal kingdom. Flora.

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They are cormophyte plants, that is, with perfectly differentiated tissues and organs.

They are the most evolved and widespread phanerogamous plants of all vegetables and the most numerous in species (more than 200,000).

These plants have flowers that produce seeds enclosed and protected by the wall of the ovary (carpels) which later become fruit.

Angiosperms can be herbaceous, shrubby or tree plants.

Reproduction in angiosperms.

In these plants the reproductive system or gametophyte is made up of the flower, which can contain both the female (carpel or pistil) and the male (stamen) structures. , or they can be on different plants or flowers.

The pollen or male gamete must be transferred to the pistil (pollination) where a pollen tube develops that fertilizes the ovule and it becomes a seed.

They represent the most important block of human food and many animals.

By their seeds they are classified into: dicotyledons and monocotyledons.

dicotyledons

They are a class of Angiosperm plants, whose seed is provided with two cotyledons located on both sides of the embryo, and exceptionally with one, due to atrophy of the second.
The presence of the two cotyledons can be observed by sectioning the seed.
The taproot is generally tough and lasts the life of the plant.
The stem has vessels that are arranged in circles.
Between the woody vessels and the liberians there is a tissue called cambium, whose proliferation allows the plant to grow in thickness.

Dicotyledons are the most abundant plants with about 200,000 species.

monocotyledons

They are angiosperm plants, that is, with a complete and visible flower, which have a single embryonic leaf or cotyledon in their seeds.
The root is of the fasciculated type and is short-lived.
The stem is not usually branched, it does not have vascular cambium for growth in thickness, but some species grow in thickness by other means.
In herbaceous plants, the stem is hollow.
The leaves are usually stem-sheathing and parallel-lined, that is, with parallel veins.

The flower of monocotyledons almost always has three floral elements or a multiple of three.

There are more than 50,000 species of monocotyledons.

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