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| image Diversity of plants image version 5.png
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| domain unranked_regnum [[Archaeplastida
| regnum Plantae
| regnum_authority Haeckel, 1866
| subdivision_ranks Divisions
| subdivision
Green algae
* Chlorophyta
* Charophyta
Land plants (embryophytes)
* Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)
** Marchantiophyta—liverworts
** Anthocerotophyta—hornworts
** Bryophyta—mosses
** †Horneophytopsida
* Vascular plants (tracheophytes)
** †Rhyniophyta—rhyniophytes
** †Zosterophyllophyta—zosterophylls
** Lycopodiophyta—clubmosses
** †Trimerophytophyta—trimerophytes
** Pteridophyta—ferns and horsetails
** †Progymnospermophyta
** Seed plants (spermatophytes)
*** †Pteridospermatophyta—seed ferns
*** Pinophyta—conifers
*** Cycadophyta—cycads
*** Ginkgophyta—ginkgo
*** Gnetophyta—gnetae
*** Magnoliophyta—flowering plants
†Nematophytes
}}
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The scientific study of plants, known as botany, has identified about 350,000 extant species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns and fern allies. As of 2004, some 287,655 species had been identified, of which 258,650 are flowering and 18,000 bryophytes (see table below). Green plants, sometimes called Viridiplantae, obtain most of their energy from sunlight via a process called photosynthesis.
Definition
Aristotle divided all living things between plants (which generally do not move), and animals (which often are mobile to catch their food). In Linnaeus system, these became the Kingdoms Vegetabilia (later Metaphyta or Plantae) and Animalia (also called Metazoa). Since then, it has become clear that the Plantae as originally defined included several unrelated groups, and the fungi and several groups of [[E read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant
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