Trochodendraceae is the only family of flowering plants in the order Trochodendrales. It comprises two living genera with two species found in south east Asia. The two living species both have secondary xylem without vessel elements, which is quite rare in angiosperms. As the vessel-free wood suggests primitiveness, these two species have attracte...
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(from the article `Magnoliidae`) Fewer than 200 species of angiosperms have the primitive feature of vesselless wood. With two exceptions, all vesselless angiosperms occur in the ...
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