lant

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For other uses, see Plant (disambiguation).
For an explanation of similar terms, see Viridiplantae.

Plants
Temporal range: Mesoproterozoic
present

Had'n

Archean

Proterozoic

Pha.

Scientific classification

Domain: Eukaryota

(unranked): Archaeplastida

Kingdom: Plantae
 sensu Copeland, 1956

Divisions

Nematophytes (?)

Chlorophyta

Palmophyllales

Prasinophyceae

Nephroselmidophyc
eae

Pseudoscourfieldiale
s

Pyramimonadophyc
eae

Mamiellophyceae

Scourfieldiales

Pedinophyceae

Chlorodendrophycea
e

Trebouxiophyceae

Ulvophyceae

Chlorophyceae

Streptophyta s.l.
 Chlorokybophyta

Mesostigmatophyta

Klebsormidiophyta

Charophyta (stonew
orts)

Chaetosphaeridiales

Coleochaetophyta

Zygnematophyta

Embryophyta (land
plants)
Synonyms

Viridiplantae Cavalier-Smith
1981[1]

Chlorobionta Jeffrey 1982,

emend. Bremer 1985, emend. Lewis
and McCourt 2004[2]

Chlorobiota Kenrick and

Crane 1997[3]

Chloroplastida Adl et al.,

2005 [4]

Phyta Barkley 1939 emed.

Holt & Uidica 2007

Cormophyta Endlicher,
1836
 Cormobionta Rothmaler,
1948

Euplanta Barkley, 1949

Telomobionta Takhtajan,
1964

Embryobionta Cronquist et
al., 1966

Metaphyta Whittaker, 1969

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.
The term is today generally limited to the green plants, which form an
unranked clade Viridiplantae (Latin for "green plants"). This includes the flowering
plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns, clubmosses, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and
the green algae, and excludes the red and brown algae. Historically, plants formed one of two
kingdoms covering all living things that were not animals, and both algae and fungi were treated as
plants; however all current definitions of "plant" exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as
the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria).