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Plantae

 

 

Kingdom

Bryophyte (mosses, hornworts, and liverworts)

  • Non-vascular plants

  • Cryptograms: no flowers or seeds

  • Reproduce using spores

  • Small (close to the ground)

 

  • Estimated more than 18,000 species

  • First terrestrial plants

  • Most are green

  • Are found in diverse places around the world

  • Vascular plants

  • Cryptograms: no flowers or seeds

  • Spore-bearing

  • Recent studies suggest that they aren't related

  • Not a single group anymore, but still in discussion

  • First land plants

Pteridophytae (ferns, horsetails, clubmosses, spikemosses and quillworts)

Angiosperm (flowering plants)

  • Seed producing

  • Most diverse phyla of plants

  • Flowers

  • Endosperm in seeds

  • Faster reproduction due to smaller seeds 

  • More than 300,000 species

  • Vascular plant

Gymnosperm (conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and Gnetales)

  • Seed producing plants

  • Naked seeds, produced in cones that do not count as fruits or flowers

  • 947 recognized species

  • Big variety in size

  • Most are trees

  • Vascular plant

     

     

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