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The embryophytes (/ ˈ ɛ m b r i ə ˌ f aɪ t s /) are a clade of plants, also known as Embryophyta (/ ˌ ɛ m b r i ˈ ɒ f ə t ə,-oʊ ˈ f aɪ t ə /) or land plants. They are the most familiar group of photoautotrophs that make up the vegetation on Earth 's dry lands and wetlands .
Hornworts are a group of non-vascular Embryophytes (land plants) constituting the division Anthocerotophyta (/ ˌ æ n θ oʊ ˌ s ɛ r ə ˈ t ɒ f ə t ə,-t ə ˈ f aɪ t ə /).The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte.
Tortilicaulis is a moss-like plant [2] known from fossils recovered from southern Britain, spanning the Silurian-Devonian boundary (around 3] Originally recovered from the Downtonian of the Welsh borderlands, Tortilicaulis has since been recovered in the famous Ludlow Lane locality.
Charophyceae is basal in the Phragmoplastophyta clade which contains the embryophytes (land plants). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2018, the first nuclear genome sequence from a species belonging to the Charophyceae was published: that of Chara braunii .
Mosses are examples of non-vascular plants.. Non-vascular plants are plants without a vascular system consisting of xylem and phloem.Instead, they may possess simpler tissues that have specialized functions for the internal transport of water.
The Archaeplastida (or kingdom Plantae sensu lato "in a broad sense"; pronounced / ɑːr k ɪ ˈ p l æ s t ɪ d ə /) are a major group of eukaryotes, comprising the photoautotrophic red algae (Rhodophyta), green algae, land plants, and the minor group glaucophytes. [6]
Archegoniatae was a higher taxonomic term that indicated those embryophytes having a female sexual organ in the form of an archegonium.The term was first introduced by the Russian botanist Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin (1848–1904) in 1876 to indicate a division including bryophytes, pteridophytes and gymnosperms in contrast to the Gynoeciatae (Angiosperms) with a more complex female organ.
The clade includes all land plants (embryophytes) except for the bryophytes (liverworts, mosses and hornworts) whose sporophytes are normally unbranched, even if a few exceptional cases occur. [1] While the definition is independent of the presence of vascular tissue , all living polysporangiophytes also have vascular tissue, i.e., are vascular ...