Higher plants {vascular plant}| {tracheophyte} have xylem and phloem conductive tissue for conducting water.
types
Vascular plants include sporophyte plants that make spores and spermatophyte plants that make seeds.
Sporophytes are club mosses (Lycopodiophyta), whisk ferns (Psilotophyta), and horsetails and ferns (Pteridophyta). Club mosses include spike mosses and quillworts.
Spermatophytes are gymnosperms or angiosperms. Gymnosperms include cycads, gnetae, ginkgoes, conifers, and extinct seed ferns. Angiosperms are flowering plants (Magnoliophyta) and include monocots and dicots.
non-vascular plants
Vascular plants do not include non-vascular plants, such as mosses (Bryophyta), liverworts (Marchantiophyta), and hornworts (Anthocerotophyta). Vascular plants do not include green algae (Chlorophyta or Charophyta). Vascular plants do not include plant-like thallophytes, such as non-green algae or fungi.
parts
Vascular plants have roots in soil or another substrate, leaves for photosynthesis and chemical activities, and stems to connect roots to leaves.
reproduction
Main plant is sporophyte, and gametophyte is small plant or is in sporophyte.
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