subdivision gnetophytina

Noun
  1. Gymnospermous flowering plants;
    Supposed link between conifers and angiosperms;
    In some systems classified as a class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta) (synset 111616937)
    is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
    member holonym: gnetales, order gnetales - chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms
    belongs to: class gymnospermae, division gymnospermophyta, gymnospermae, gymnospermophyta - plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida)
    same as: class gnetopsida, gnetophyta, gnetophytina, gnetopsida

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