Mesangiospermae is a group of flowering plants, informally called "mesangiosperms". They are one of four clades of angiosperms. It was a name first described for the PhyloCode system of phylogenetic nomenclature. There are about 350,000 species of mesangiosperms. The mesangiosperms contain about 99.95% of the flowering plants, assuming that there are about 175 species not in this group and about 350,000 that are. While such a clade with a similar circumscription exists in the APG III system, it was not given a name.
Besides the mesangiosperms, the other groups of flowering plants are Amborellales, Nymphaeales, and Austrobaileyales. These constitute a paraphyletic grade called basal angiosperms. The order names, ending in -ales are used here without reference to taxonomic rank because these groups contain only one order.
Mesangiospermae includes the following clades:
- Ceratophyllales
- Chloranthales
- Eudicots
- Magnoliidae
- Monocots
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