Embryophyte

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

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.

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

Conocephalum conicum (e, 144739-474742) 1022
Phaeoceros laevis 48205337 (white background)
Lycopodium clavatum - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-219 (extracted)
California Arena Point fern
PIH 1830 Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) graft clone collection in Röykkä Finland
Original Description*Revsmörblomma, Ranunculus repens L.
Most bryophytes, such as these mosses, produce stalked sporophytes from which their spores are released.
Reconstruction of a plant of Rhynia
Lycopodiella inundata, a lycophyte