botanical evolution

While planting banksias recently one of the party commented that banksias looked 'like dinasaurs' and, while discussing the comment we all realised that we know very little about the evolution of plants. We know that the local beech forest is a remnant of a super continent, that grasses came 'last' and algae came 'before that' and that was really that. Does anyone know of a readable reference on plant evolution, preferably one that doesn't just consign all flowering plants and grasses to a brief post script. Perhaps someone is writing one????
 
Margaret Healey
Australia
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