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Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers ), and angiosperms ( flowering plants ). They are contrasted with nonvascular plants such as mosses and green algae. Scientific names for the vascular plants group include Tracheophyta, [ 11][ 4]: 251 Tracheobionta [ 12] and Equisetopsida sensu lato.
A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that reproduces by means of spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, horsetails (often treated as ferns), and lycophytes ( clubmosses, spikemosses, and ...
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ ˌ æ n dʒ i ə ˈ s p ər m iː /), [5] [6] commonly called angiosperms.They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants.
Ophrys chlorantha Hegetschw. & Heer. Ophrys insectifera var. andrachnites. Ophrys apifera, known in Europe as the bee orchid, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Ophrys, in the family of Orchidaceae. It serves as an example of sexually deceptive pollination and floral mimicry, a highly selective and highly evolved plant–pollinator ...
Euphyllophyte. The euphyllophytes are a clade of plants within the tracheophytes (the vascular plants). The group may be treated as an unranked clade, [ 1] a division under the name Euphyllophyta[ 2] or a subdivision under the name Euphyllophytina. [ 3] The euphyllophytes are characterized by the possession of true leaves ("megaphylls"), and ...
The group was described as a subdivision of the division Tracheophyta by Harlan Parker Banks in 1968 under the name Rhyniophytina. The original definition was: "plants with naked (lacking emergences), dichotomizing axes bearing sporangia that are terminal, usually fusiform and may dehisce longitudinally; they are diminutive plants and, in so far as is known, have a small terete xylem strand ...
Division Tracheophyta (vascular plants) Class Lycopodiopsida, clubmosses and related plants (fern-allies) Class Sphenopsida or Equisetopsida, horsetails and scouring-rushes (fern-allies) Class Psilotopsida, whisk ferns (fern-allies) Class Filices or Pteropsida, true ferns (including leptosporangiates, marattioids, adder's-tongues, and moonworts)
Embryophyte. The embryophytes ( / ˈɛmbriəˌfaɪts /) are a clade of plants, also known as Embryophyta ( / ˌɛmbriˈɒfətə, - oʊˈfaɪtə /) or land plants. They are the most familiar group of photoautotrophs that make up the vegetation on Earth 's dry lands and wetlands.