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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.
A kingdom contains one or more phyla. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown. In biology, a phylum ( / ˈfaɪləm /; pl.: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. Traditionally, in botany the term division has been used instead of phylum, although the International Code of Nomenclature for algae ...
Thallophytes ( Thallophyta, Thallophyto or Thallobionta) are a polyphyletic group of non-motile organisms traditionally described as "thalloid plants", "relatively simple plants" or "lower plants". They form a division of kingdom Plantae that include lichens and algae and occasionally bryophytes, bacteria and slime moulds.
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.
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 [a] flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.
Chromista is a proposed but polyphyletic [ 1][ 2][ 3] biological kingdom, refined from the Chromalveolata, consisting of single-celled and multicellular eukaryotic species that share similar features in their photosynthetic organelles ( plastids ). [ 4] It includes all eukaryotes whose plastids contain chlorophyll c and are surrounded by four ...
Streptophyta ( / strɛpˈtɒfɪtə, ˈstrɛptoʊfaɪtə / ), informally the streptophytes ( / ˈstrɛptəfaɪts /, from the Greek strepto 'twisted', for the morphology of the sperm of some members), is a clade of plants. The composition of the clade varies considerably between authors, but the definition employed here includes land plants and ...
Magnoliids. Magnoliids, Magnoliidae or Magnolianae are a clade of flowering plants. With more than 10,000 species, including magnolias, nutmeg, bay laurel, cinnamon, avocado, black pepper, tulip tree and many others, it is the third-largest group of angiosperms after the eudicots and monocots. [3] The group is characterized by trimerous flowers ...