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.

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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 File:Pediastrum.jpg

Streptophyta/Charophyta

Charophyceae 60 px

Zygnemaphyceae

	Zygnemales 60 px

	Desmidiales 60 px

Embryophyta

Bryophyta

Hornworts 60 px

	Liverworts 60 px

	Mosses 60 px

Polysporangiophyta

Horneophytopsida/Horneophyta†60 px

Tracheophyta

Cooksonia†File:Cooksonia.png

Rhyniophyta†60 px

Eutracheophyta/Pteridophyta *

	Nothia†60 px

	Lycophyta 60 px

Euphyllophyta

Monilophyta/Ferns

BotrychiumFile:Botrychium paradoxum.jpg

	Horsetails 60 px

	True ferns

Spermatophyte_lineage

Eophyllophyton†

Lignophyta

Progymnosperma†*

Spermatophyta

	Gymnosperma

	Angiosperma

Embryophyte Media

Conocephalum conicum (e, 144739-474742) 1022
Phaeoceros laevis 48205337 (white background)
Lycopodium clavatum - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-219 (extracted).jpg

Lycopodium clavatum - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-219 (extracted)
California Arena Point fern.jpg

California Arena Point fern
160 Ranunculus repens.jpg

Original Description*Revsmörblomma, Ranunculus repens L.
PIH 1830 Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) graft clone collection in Röykkä Finland.jpg

PIH 1830 Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) graft clone collection in Röykkä Finland
Bryophytes, such as these mosses, produce unbranched, stalked sporophytes from which their spores are released.
Rhynia reconstruction.svg

Reconstruction of a plant of Rhynia
Lycopodiella inundata 002.jpg

Lycopodiella inundata, a lycophyte