Kingdom

Plantae (Plants)

Festuca ammobia. Photo: (c) Asa Spade, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for “green plants”) which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants)….

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