10 Examples of Kingdom Plantae
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
exist five kingdoms In nature. Kingdoms are ways of classifying living beings from certain characteristics that they have in common. This classification helps to understand the relationships that organisms establish with each other, but also to highlight the particularities of each species within the generalities of his kingdom.
The kingdom is a general ranking. In addition, each genus is subdivided into phylum (or division), class, order, family, and finally species. Species are the basic units of biological classification, that is, the minimum unit of classification.
The fact that the realm is one of the broadest classifications (lower than only the 3 domains), implies that within each domain there are an enormous number and variety of species that have only a few characteristics in common with each other, which nevertheless radically distinguish them from species in other kingdoms.
Besides Kingdom Plantae, the other kingdoms of nature are:
Kingdom Plantae
This kingdom is also known as the Plant Kingdom. Their characteristics are:
Examples of Kingdom Plantae
- Braunia imberbis. Type of moss (non-vascular land plant) with stems up to 4 centimeters. It has a characteristic yellowish-green color. It grows on rocks.
- Cyanidioschyzon. Cyanidiophytina alga, unicellular, belonging to the red algae. It does not have a cell wall and therefore has a rounded shape.
- Royal fern (osmunda regalis). Native plant of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. It grows in swamps. It belongs to the seedless vascular land plants.
- Magnolia. Evergreen trees with white-petalled flowers for ornamental use. Dicotyledonous species.
- Sago palm (cycas revoluta). Also called cica, church palm or false palm tree. It comes from Japan. It looks very similar to a palm tree, like all cycads (a specific type of gymnosperm).
- Cembra pine (Pinus cembra). Tree up to 25 cm tall with needles (needle-shaped leaves) grouped by five. It is a gymnosperm.
- Banana plant (musaceae). It has large leaves that grow in a spiral along the stem. They have flowers with 5 tepals. It is a monocotyledonous plant.
- Snow watermelon (scientific name: chlamydomona). Single-celled green alga that inhabits alpine snowdrifts.
- Yew trees (taxus). Coniferous tree. Grows in mountainous areas and wet. It can reach 20 meters in height. As it is a gymnosperm, it has no fruit but it does have an aril: a fleshy covering of the seed.
- Tulip. Perennial and bulbous plant. Monocotyledonous flowering plant.
The classification detailed below is the traditional classification. There is also a phylogenetic classification that includes other organisms not considered plants, but that have chloroplasts.
Kingdom Plantae Classification
Algae
They are the plants that live in aquatic environments. They may be unicellular or multicellular.
Terrestrial plants
They are also called embryophytes (embryophyta). They are descendants of certain species of green algae but are distinguished from them because they are capable of living outside the water. In other words, they are the species that colonized the earth.
Terrestrial plants are characterized by crossing a embryo stageThat is why they are called embryophytes. This is a difference with all algae, more general than being adapted to the terrestrial environment, since there are a few species of algae that live outside the water.
Embryophytes also have multicellular cellular structures in the sporophyte, gametophyte, cuticle, and thick-walled spores.
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