Embryophyte

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.

Embryophyta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Archaeplastida
Kingdom:	Plantae
Subkingdom:	Embryophyta

Moss, clubmoss, ferns and cycads growing in a greenhouse

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 Hornworts Liverworts Mosses Polysporangiophyta Horneophytopsida/Horneophyta† Tracheophyta Cooksonia† Rhyniophyta† Eutracheophyta/Pteridophyta* Nothia† Lycophyta Euphyllophyta Monilophyta/Ferns Botrychium Horsetails True ferns Spermatophyte_lineage Eophyllophyton† Lignophyta Progymnosperma†* Spermatophyta Gymnosperma Angiosperma

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Embryophyte Media

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  Conocephalum conicum (e, 144739-474742) 1022

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  Phaeoceros laevis 48205337 (white background)

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  Lycopodium clavatum - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-219 (extracted)

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  California Arena Point fern

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  PIH 1830 Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) graft clone collection in Röykkä Finland

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  Original Description*Revsmörblomma, Ranunculus repens L.

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  Most bryophytes, such as these mosses, produce stalked sporophytes from which their spores are released.

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  Reconstruction of a plant of Rhynia

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  Lycopodiella inundata, a lycophyte