Embryophyte

Embryophyta
A daisy
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Embryophyta
Moss, clubmoss, ferns and cycads growing in a greenhouse

Embryophytes are land plants. They are the most familiar kinds of plants, the bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants. Only a few embryophytes are water plants.

They don't include the algae. They include the Bryophytes and the vascular plants.

Embryophytes started sometime between the mid-Cambrian and the Ordovician period. Their ancestors were green algae.


Viridiplantae

Chlorophyta

Streptophyta/Charophyta

Charophyceae

Zygnemaphyceae

Zygnemales

Desmidiales

Embryophyta
Bryophyta
Polysporangiophyta

Horneophytopsida/Horneophyta†

Tracheophyta

Cooksonia†

Rhyniophyta†

Eutracheophyta/Pteridophyta*

Nothia†

Lycophyta

Euphyllophyta
Monilophyta/Ferns

Botrychium

Spermatophyte_lineage

Eophyllophyton†

Lignophyta

Progymnosperma†*

Spermatophyta

Gymnosperma

Angiosperma