Embryophyte
superdivision of plants
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Embryophytes are land plants. They are the most familiar kinds of plants, the bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and flowering plants. Only a few embryophytes are water plants.
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They don't include the algae. They include the Bryophytes and the vascular plants.
Embryophytes started sometime between the mid-Cambrian and the Ordovician period. Their ancestors were green algae.
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