Dicotyledones
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Dicotyledones are flowering plants that have two embryonic leaves (called cotyledons) when they first sprout, which you can see in seeds like beans or castor oil plants. They make up a major group of flowering plants and include many common species like trees, shrubs, and herbs that are important to ecosystems and human use.
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- Comparison with monocotyledons
- Classification
- Phylogeny
- Historical
- APG vs. Cronquist
- Dahlgren and Thorne systems
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thumb|Dicotyledon plantlet thumb|200px|Young castor oil plant showing its prominent two embryonic leaves ([[cotyledons), which differ from the adult leaves]]
The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, that the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. There are around 200,000 species within this group. The other group of flowering plants were called monocotyledons (or monocots), typically each having one cotyledon. Historically, these two groups formed the two divisions of the flowering plants.