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Angiosperms that contains c. 260,000 flowering plant species. This group of plants includes trees, herbs, shrubs, bulbs, parasitic plants (epiphytes), and other plants living in freshwater and marine habitats. The popular and largest families of this group include the family Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Asteraceae. Apart from the presence of a vascular system in these plant group, other characteristics shared are: presence of seeds (in the carpel of the flower or fruit); formation of endosperm (a nutritive tissue) through double fertilization; presence of pollen sacs in the male reproductive tissues. Moreover, an interesting fact about magnoliid (the oldest group of angiospermous plants) is that they were the first flowering plants to be considered as the foundation of giving rise to dicots and monocots.