Notes: Plants Introduction to Classification

Phylogeny:  Origins to Angiosperms

Bryophytes

Seedless Vascular
Gymnosperms
Angiosperms

  1. Origin of plants with cuticle and special gametangia.
  2. Early vascular plants developed.
  3. First seed plants developed.
  4. Age of Flowering Plants begins.

Plant Classifications

Division

Common Name

Nonvascular Plants

Bryophyta

Mosses

Hepatophyta

Liverworts

Anthocerophyta

Hornworts

Vascular Plants

Seedless Plants

Psilophyta

Whiskferns

Lycophyta

Club mosses

Sphenophyta

Horsetails

Pterophyta

Ferns

Seed Plants

Gymnosperms

Coniferophyta

Conifers

Cycadophyta

Cycads

Ginkgophyta

Ginkgo

Gnetophyta

Gnetae

Angiosperms

Anthophyta

Flowering Plants

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