Plants, also called green plants

For other uses, see Plant (disambiguation).

Plants

Temporal range:

Early Cambrian to recent, but see text, 520–0Ma

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Scientific classification

Domain: Eukaryota

(unranked): Archaeplastida

Kingdom: Plantae

Haeckel, 1866[1][verification needed]

Divisions

Green algae

Chlorophyta

Charophyta

Land plants (embryophytes)

Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

Marchantiophyta—liverworts

Anthocerotophyta—hornworts

Bryophyta—mosses

†Horneophytopsida

Vascular plants (tracheophytes)

†Rhyniophyta—rhyniophytes

†Zosterophyllophyta—zosterophylls

Lycopodiophyta—clubmosses

†Trimerophytophyta—trimerophytes

Pteridophyta—ferns and horsetails

†Progymnospermophyta

Seed plants (spermatophytes)

†Pteridospermatophyta—seed ferns

Pinophyta—conifers

Cycadophyta—cycads

Ginkgophyta—ginkgo

Gnetophyta—gnetae

Magnoliophyta—flowering plants

†Nematophytes

Synonyms

Chloroplastida Adl et al., 2005

Viridiplantae Cavalier-Smith 1981

Chlorobionta Jeffrey 1982, emend. Bremer 1985, emend. Lewis and McCourt 2004

Chlorobiota Kendrick and Crane 1997

Plants, also called green plants (Viridiplantae in Latin), are living multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae. They form a clade that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, liverworts and mosses, as well as, depending on definition,

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