Vascular plant
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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]
Quick Facts Scientific classification, Divisions † Extinct ...
Vascular plants | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kinrick: | Plantae |
Clade: | Embryophytes |
Clade: | Polysporangiophytes |
Clade: | Tracheophytes Sinnott, 1935[1] ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998[2] |
Divisions † Extinct | |
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