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Embryophyte

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Embryophyte

Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae Subkingdom: Embryophyta
Divisions
Seed plants (spermatophytes) Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Angiosperms Magnoliophyta (flowering plants) Cycadophyta (cycads) Ginkgophyta (ginkgo) Gnetophyta (gnetae) Gymnosperms Coniferophyta Non-seed-bearing Plants Lycopodiophyta (clubmosses) Equisetophyta (horsetails) Pteridophyta ("true" ferns) Psilotophyta (whisk ferns) Ophioglossophyta (adders'-tongues) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Bryophyta (mosses) Marchantiophyta (liverworts) Anthocerotophyta (hornworts)

The embryophytes are very familiar and consist of trees, flowers, ferns, mosses and various other plants. All are complex, multicellular organisms with specialized reproductive organs. These plants produce an embryo and develop vascular tissues. This group is divided into non-vascular plants and vascular plants which get energy by a process called photosynthesis.

1 Anatomy
2 Reproduction
3 Ecology
4 Related References
5 See Also

Anatomy

They have vascular tissues, they can live everywhere if there is water. This system make water go throughout body, and an outer layer or cuticle that resists desiccation.

Reproduction

Vascular plants reproduce using spores like Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, Psilotophyta, Ophioglossophyta and Pteridophyta. Other groups like non-vascular plants reproduce using seeds including, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Pinophyta, Gnetophyta and Magnoliophyta.

Phaseolus vulgaris seeds

Ecology

Embryophytes usually grow in moist environments using the water to disperse their spores. Because embryophytes are a very large group of plants it lives almost anywhere.