Vascular plant
| Vascular plants | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kinrick: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Polysporangiophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes Sinnott, 1935[1] ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998[2] |
| Divisions † Extinct | |
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Vascular plants (frae Laitin vasculum: duct), cried tracheophytes (frae the equivalent Greek term trachea) or heicher plants an aa, form a muckle group o plants that are defined as thae land plants that hae lignified tishies (the xylem) for conductin watter an minerals oothrou the plant. Thay forby hae a specialised non-lignified tishie (the phloem) tae conduct products o photosynthesis. Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (includin conifers) an angiosperms (flouerin plants). Scienteefic names for the group include Tracheophyta[3] an Tracheobionta.[4]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Sinnott, E. W. 1935. Botany. Principles and Problems, 3d edition. McGraw-Hill, New York.
- ↑ Cavalier-Smith, T. (1998), "A revised six-kingdom system of life" (PDF), Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 73 (3): 203–266, doi:10.1017/S0006323198005167, archived frae the original (PDF) on 29 Mairch 2018, retrieved 17 Julie 2019
- ↑ Abercrombie, Hickman & Johnson. 1966. A Dictionary of Biology. (Penguin Books
- ↑ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Tracheobionta". Retrieved 20 September 2013.
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