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Botanists define vascular plants by
three primary characteristics:
Vascular plants have
vascular tissues which distribute resources through the
plant. Two kinds...
- Non-
vascular plants are
plants without a
vascular system consisting of
xylem and phloem. Instead, they may
possess simpler tissues that have specialized...
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Vascular tissue is a
complex conducting tissue,
formed of more than one cell type,
found in
vascular plants. The
primary components of
vascular tissue...
- non-
vascular land
plants,
namely the
mosses (Bryophyta),
hornworts (Anthocerotophyta), and
liverworts (Marchantiophyta), are
relatively small plants, often...
- A
pteridophyte is a
vascular plant (with
xylem and phloem) that
reproduces by
means of spores.
Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds...
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other vascular plants. It
produces secondary xylem inwards,
towards the pith, and
secondary phloem outwards,
towards the bark. In
herbaceous plants, it...
- (/ˈbraɪˌoʊfaɪts/) are a
group of land
plants,
sometimes treated as a
taxonomic division, that
contains three groups of non-
vascular land
plants (embryophytes): the liverworts...
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Herbaceous plants are
vascular plants that have no
persistent woody stems above ground. This
broad category of
plants includes many perennials, and nearly...
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species of land
plants of
which some 391,000
species are
vascular plants (including
approximately 369,000
species of
flowering plants), and approximately...
- The
ferns (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta) are a
group of
vascular plants (
plants with
xylem and phloem) that
reproduce via
spores and have neither...