Embryophyte

The Embryophyta or Metaphyta, are the maist familiar subkingdom o green plants that furm vegetation on yird. The embryophytes include hornworts, liverworts, mosses, ferns an thair allies, gymnosperms an flouerin plants, but exclude the green algae. The Embryophyta are informally cried land plants acause thay live primarily in terrestrial habitats, while the relatit green algae are primarily aquatic. Aw are complex multicellular eukaryotes wi specialised reproductive organs. The name derives frae thair innovative characteristic o nurturin the young embryo sporophyte durin the early stages o its multicellular development within the tissues o the parent gametophyte. Wi very few exceptions, embryophytes obtain thair energy bi photosynthesis, that is bi uisin the energy o sunlicht tae synthesize thair fuid frae carbon dioxide an watter.

Laund plants Temporal range: Mid Ordovician–Present[1][2] (Spores from Dapingian (early Middle Ordovician)) PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes Engler, 1892[3][4]
Diveesions
Non-vascular laund plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta – liverworts Bryophyta – mosses Anthocerotophyta – hornworts †Horneophytopsida Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta – rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta – zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta – clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta – trimerophytes Pteridophyta – ferns an horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta – seed ferns Pinophyta – conifers Cycadophyta – cycads Ginkgophyta – ginkgo Gnetophyta – gnetae Magnoliophyta – flouerin plants Traditional groups: Bryophyta* Pteridophyta* Gymnospermae* Angiospermae
Synonyms
Cormophyta Endlicher, 1836 Phyta Barkley, 1939[5] Cormobionta Rothmaler, 1948[6] Euplanta Barkley, 1949[7] Telomobionta Takhtajan, 1964[8] Embryobionta Cronquist et al. 1966[9] Metaphyta Whittaker, 1969[10] Plantae Margulis, 1971[11]