Distribution and economic importance of angiosperms
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It is a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within acarpel. The angiosperms are a large group and include herbaceousplants, shrubs, grasses, and most trees. Angiosperms (a plant whose ovules are enclosed in an ovary) arecommonly referred to as "flowering plants", as opposed togymnosperms, or "cone bearing plants." Angiosperms form a phylum, the phylum Anthophyta .Angiosperms are also called anthophytes or magnoliophytes. Thesporophyte is dominant and the gametophyte is the most reduced ofall plants. There are so far more than 300,000 far namedangiosperms. Angiosperms evolved in the Cretaceous. Many haveclose-bound mutualisms with pollinating insects. Angiosperms are divided into monocotyledons and eudicotyledons(dicotyledons)
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⭕The economic importance of Angiosperms:
✔️Food:
Flowering plants are the major sources of food.
They produce cereals such as wheat, rice, etc. , vegetables such as potato, tomato, carrot etc and fruits such as apple, mango.
✔️Edible oils:
Flowering plants are the main source of edible oils used for cooking.
These are obtained from groundnut, mustard, sunflower, coconut etc.
✔️Spices:
common spices are obtained from various parts of flowering plants such as coriander, cloves, black paper, etc.
✔️Beverages:
coffee and cocoa are the common beverages obtained from the flowering plants.
✔️Medicines:
Some of the important medicinal plants are quinine, belladonna, Ashwagandha, etc.
✔️Timber:
many angiosperms particularly dicot yield valuable hardwood which is used as Timber e.g., Teak, Oak, Sheesham, Sandalwood, etc.
✔️Fibres:
Fibres of different qualities are obtained from various species of flowering plants e.g., Textile fibres are obtained from cotton.
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