Amborella
| Amborella | |
|---|---|
| Male specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Order: | Amborellales Melikyan, A.V.Bobrov, & Zaytzeva |
| Family: | Amborellaceae Pichon |
| Genus: | Amborella Baill. |
| Species: | A. trichopoda |
| Binomial name | |
| Amborella trichopoda | |
Amborella is a monotypic genus of understory shrubs or small trees endemic to the main island, Grande Terre, of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The genus is the only member of the family Amborellaceae and the order Amborellales and contains a single species, Amborella trichopoda. Amborella is of great interest to plant systematists because molecular phylogenetic analyses consistently place it as the sister group to all other flowering plants, meaning it was the earliest group to evolve separately from all other flowering plants.
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