Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Class
Chapter:
.00
Tracheophyta
Name: Tracheobionta; Tracheophytes, from the Greek trachea, vessel.
Name: Cormophyta; Cormophytes, meaning plants with roots and stems.
English: Vascular plants.
Including
Pterridophyta, ferns.
Gymnospermae, pines.
Angiospermae, flowering plants.
Botany: land plants; with lignified tissues, the xylem, for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant; with specialized non-lignified tissue, the phloem, to conduct products of photosynthesis.