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

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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

Chlorophyta60 px Streptophyta/Charophyta Charophyceae60 px Zygnemaphyceae Zygnemales60 px Desmidiales60 px Embryophyta Bryophyta Hornworts60 px Liverworts60 px Mosses60 px Polysporangiophyta Horneophytopsida/Horneophyta†60 px Tracheophyta Cooksonia†60 px Rhyniophyta†60 px Eutracheophyta/Pteridophyta* Nothia†60 px Lycophyta60 px Euphyllophyta Monilophyta/Ferns Botrychium Horsetails60 px True ferns Spermatophyte_lineage Eophyllophyton† Lignophyta Progymnosperma†*60 px 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)

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

• California Arena Point fern

• Original Description*Revsmörblomma, Ranunculus repens L.

• 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.

• Reconstruction of a plant of Rhynia

• Lycopodiella inundata, a lycophyte