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Flowering plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Traditionally, the flowering plants are divided into two groups, which in the Cronquist system are called Magnoliopsida (at the rank of class, formed from the family name Magnoliacae) and Liliopsida (at the rank of class, formed from the family name Liliaceae). |
 | | The reproductive cells produced by flowers are of two kinds, microspores or pollen grains, are the "male" cells and are borne in the stamens (or microsporophylls), and the "female" cells called megaspores, in which the egg-cell is developed, contained in the ovule and enclosed in the carpel (or megasporophyll). |
 | | Of all the families of flowering plants, the Poaceae, or grass family, is by far the most important, providing the bulk of all feedstocks (rice, corn (maize), wheat, barley, rye, oats, millet, sugar cane, sorghum), with the Fabaceae, or legume family, in second place. |
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