Plant Classification – Plant groups

KINGODOM PHYLUM CLASS Plantae / Plants (multicellular organisms that make their own food by photosynthesis) Bryophyta - mosses liverworts Mosses Liverworts Tracheophyta - ferns - conifers - flowering plants Ferns Conifers / Gymnosperms Flowering plants / Angiosperms Monocots grasses, orchids, lilies Dicots all other flowering plants

Bryophytes Bryophytes are non-vascular plants i.e. lack transport tissues, no true roots, stems and leaves Two groups – mosses & liverworts Small in size Live in moist land-based habitats

KINGODOM PHYLUM CLASS Plantae / Plants (multicellular organisms that make their own food by photosynthesis) Bryophyta - mosses liverworts Mosses Liverworts Tracheophyta - ferns - conifers - flowering plants Ferns Conifers / Gymnosperms Flowering plants / Angiosperms Monocots grasses, orchids, lilies Dicots all other flowering plants

Tracheophyta - Vascular plants Seedless plants ferns, horsetails, reproduce by spores not seeds Seed plants conifers / gymnosperms – kauri, rimu, totara, pine carry seeds on cones flowering plants / angiosperms – grass, all fruiting plants have covered seeds

KINGODOM PHYLUM CLASS Plantae / Plants (multicellular organisms that make their own food by photosynthesis) Bryophyta - mosses liverworts Mosses Liverworts Tracheophyta - ferns - conifers - flowering plants Ferns Conifers / Gymnosperms Flowering plants / Angiosperms Monocots grasses, orchids, lilies Dicots all other flowering plants

Flowering plants / Angiosperms Monocots - grasses, orchids, lilies - one seed leaf - vascular bundles scattered in stem - parallel veins Dicots - all other flowering plants - two seed leaves - vascular bundles in a ring - branched veins