Family · Magnoliids & basal

Amborellaceae

Amborella (sister to all flowering plants)

A single shrub endemic to New Caledonia, sister lineage to all other flowering plants and lacking water-conducting vessels.

Accepted species

1accepted names · Kew WCVP

Genus

1accepted genus · Kew WCVP

Origin

≈139 MaCretaceous · stem age, Jin & Qian 2022 megatree

Centre of diversity

Pacificmost native species · WGSRPD

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Plants you might know

• Amborella trichopoda

Its genus

• Amborella1 spp.

Where it grows

• Pacific1

Native species richness by botanical continent (WGSRPD level 1), from Kew WCVP.

Related families

Amborellaceae sits in the order Amborellales.