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Thallophyta is a division of the plant kingdom including primitive forms of plant life showing a simple plant body. Including unicellular to large algae, fungi, lichens. [5] The first ten phyla are referred to as thallophytes. They are simple plants without roots stems or leaves. [6] They are non-embryophyta. These plants grow mainly in water.
Asteroideae is a subfamily of the plant family Asteraceae.It contains about 70% of the species of the family. [2] It consists of several tribes, including Astereae, Calenduleae, Eupatorieae, Gnaphalieae, Heliantheae, Senecioneae and Tageteae.
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight , using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll .
Aristolochia (English: / ə ˌ r ɪ s t ə ˈ l oʊ k i ə /) is a large plant genus with over 500 species that is the type genus of the family Aristolochiaceae.Its members are commonly known as birthwort, pipevine or Dutchman's pipe and are widespread and occur in the most diverse climates.
Swertia is a genus in the gentian family containing plants sometimes referred to as the felworts. [4] Some species bear very showy purple and blue flowers. [5] [6] Many members of this genus have medicinal and cultural purposes.
The flowers are small, yellow, and unisexual, with a racemic inflorescence. Male flowers are numerous, with long-styled female flowers in a cupula. The fruit is a light brown, ovoid capsule, or acorn, with a leathery pericarp, 20–25 millimetres (3 ⁄ 4 –1 inch) in diameter and 50–70 mm (2– 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) long, resting on a scaly ...
Streptophyta (/ s t r ɛ p ˈ t ɒ f ɪ t ə, ˈ s t r ɛ p t oʊ f aɪ t ə /), informally the streptophytes (/ ˈ s t r ɛ p t ə f aɪ t s /, from the Greek strepto 'twisted', for the morphology of the sperm of some members), is a clade of plants.
Species grows up to 20 metres (66 ft) tall, the crown is large and spreading while the bark is pale brown with scales and fissures, the species sometimes grows as an epyphyte. [2] Leaves, alternate, petioles and stipules are present; leaflets are ovate to elliptic in outline, up to 25 centimetres (10 in) long and 17 centimetres (7 in) wide.