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.
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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.
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Embryophyte Media
- Conocephalum conicum (e, 144739-474742) 1022.jpg
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