 The predominant view that "Amborella" represents the oldest flowering plant was recently challenged in a study by Goremykini "et al" (2013), who showed that when highly variable sites were removed from the dataset, "T. inconspicua" was consistently identified as the oldest angiosperm lineage.This proposal has attracted criticism from Drew "et al" (2014), who argued that the basal placement of "T. inconspicua" is an artifact of the variable site filtering method used by Goremykini "et al" (2013).One of the main reasons why people are interested in this question is that placing "T. inconspicua" at the base of the angiosperm lineage would suggest the first angiosperms were soft bodied aquatic plants, rather than a woody terrestrial plants like "Amborella".