division pteridophyta

1. Containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns;
   In some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta (synset 111565220)
   is a type of: division - (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
   member holonym:

   • genus pecopteris - genus of Carboniferous fossil ferns
   • nonflowering plant, pteridophyte - plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores
   • fern family - families of ferns and fern allies
   • fern genus - genera of ferns and fern allies
   • class filicinae, class filicopsida, filicinae, filicopsida - ferns
   • class psilopsida, class psilotatae, psilopsida, psilotatae - whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs
   • order psilophytales, psilophytales - Paleozoic simple dichotomously branched plants of Europe and eastern Canada including the oldest known vascular land plants
   • class equisetatae, class sphenopsida, equisetatae, sphenopsida - horsetails and related forms
   • class lycopodiate, class lycopsida, lycopodiate, lycopsida - club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
   belongs to: kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants
   same as: pteridophyta

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