Paleodicots (sometimes spelled "palaeodicots") is an informal name used by botanists (Spichiger & Savolainen 1997, Leitch et al. 1998) to refer to a group of flowering plants traditionally considered dicotyledons but excluded from the monophyletic group eudicots in classifications based on molecular systematics. Molecular phylogenies have shown that within the flowering plants (angiosperms), there are two major clades, recognized in the APG II system as the monocots and the eudicots (tricolpates… (More on Paleodicot)