Template:Vascular plant phylogeny

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A proposed phylogeny of the vascular plants after Kenrick and Crane[1] is as follows, with modification to the Pteridophyta from Smith et al. [2]

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  1. ^ Kenrick, Paul & Peter R. Crane. 1997. The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants: A Cladistic Study. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press). ISBN 1-56098-730-8.
  2. ^ Smith, Alan R., Kathleen M. Pryer, E. Schuettpelz, P. Korall, H. Schneider, & Paul G. Wolf. (2006). "A classification for extant ferns". Taxon 55(3): 705-731.
Polysporangiates

Tracheophytes
Eutracheophytes
Euphyllophytina
Lignophytes
Spermatophytes

Pteridospermatophyta † (seed ferns)



Cycadophyta (cycads)



Pinophyta (conifers)



Ginkgophyta (ginkgo)



Gnetophyta



Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)




Progymnospermophyta †



Pteridophyta


Pteridopsida (true ferns)



Marattiopsida



Equisetopsida (horsetails)



Psilotopsida (whisk ferns & adders'-tongues)



Cladoxylopsida †





Lycophytina

Lycopodiophyta



Zosterophyllophyta †





Rhyniophyta †





Aglaophyton †



Horneophytopsida †