Polysporangiophyte
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Polysporangiophytes, also called polysporangiates or formally Polysporangiophyta, are plants in which the spore-bearing generation (sporophyte) has branching stems (axes) that bear sporangia. The name literally means 'many sporangia plant'. The clade includes all land plants (embryophytes) except for the bryophytes (liverworts, mosses and hornworts) whose sporophytes are normally unbranched, even
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| Polysporangiophyte Temporal range:
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| Reconstruction of Aglaophyton, illustrating bifurcating axes with terminal sporangia, and rhizoids. | |
| Modern polysporangiophyte, monarch fern is a vascular plant. | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Polysporangiophytes Kenrick & Crane (1997) |
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