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    The document outlines the major divisions of land plants, including non-vascular plants like mosses and liverworts which lack true tissues, vascular plants like ferns and seed plants, and the characteristics used to distinguish them such as presence of a vascular system, sporophytes, leaves, seeds and cones.

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    The document outlines the major divisions of land plants, including non-vascular plants like mosses and liverworts which lack true tissues, vascular plants like ferns and seed plants, and the characteristics used to distinguish them such as presence of a vascular system, sporophytes, leaves, seeds and cones.

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    Division (Phylum)

    Meaning

    Common name

    Distinguishing characteristics Hornshaped sporophytes, no vascular system Persistent unbranched sporophytes, no vascular system

    Anthocerotophyta

    Flower-horn plants

    Hornworts

    Non-Vascular

    Bryophyta

    Moss plants

    Mosses

    Marchantiophyta

    Marchantia plants

    Liverworts

    Ephemeral unbranched sporophytes, no vascular system

    Lycopodiophyta

    Wolf foot plants

    Clubmosses & Spikemosses

    Microphyll leaves, vascular system

    Pteridophyta

    Fern plants

    Ferns & Horsetails

    Prothallus gametophytes, vascular system

    Pteridospermatophyta

    Fern with seeds plant Seed ferns

    Only known from fossils, mostly Devonian, ranking in dispute[11]

    Vascular

    Coniferophyta

    Sap/pitch plants

    Conifers

    Cones containing seeds and wood composed of tracheids

    Gymnosperm

    Cycadophyta

    Palm plants

    Cycads

    Seeds, crown of compound leaves

    Ginkgophyta

    Ginkgo plants

    Ginkgo, Maidenhair

    Seeds not protected by fruit (single species)

    Gnetophyta

    Gnetophytes

    Seeds and woody vascular system with vessels

    Angiosperm

    Anthophyta (or Magnolioph Flower plant yta)

    Flowering plants

    Flowers and fruit, vascular system with vessels

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