Eudicots

Also known as Eudicotidae, Eudicotyledons, Eudicotyledoneae

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taxon name: eudicots
Commons category: Eudicots
taxon common name: Eudicotiledònies

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thumb|right|Arabis pollen has three colpi.

The eudicots or eudicotyledons are flowering plants that have two seed leaves (cotyledons) upon germination. The term derives from dicotyledon (etymologically, eu = true; di = two; cotyledon = seed leaf). Historically, authors have used the terms tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots. The current botanical terms were introduced in 1991, by evolutionary botanist James A. Doyle and paleobotanist Carol L. Hotton, to emphasize the later evolutionary divergence of tricolpate dicots from earlier, less specialized, dicots.