# Embryophyte

| Embryophyta |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| (unranked): | Archaeplastida |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Subkingdom: | **Embryophyta** |

Moss, clubmoss, ferns and cycads growing in a greenhouse
**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.

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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Chlorophyta |
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| **Embryophyta** |

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| Bryophyta |

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Rhyniophyta† |
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