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The Evolution of the Plant Kingdom

  • CHLOROPHYTA (green algae)
    1 CE

    CHLOROPHYTA (green algae)

    Appeared 1500 million years ago.
    It reproduces both sexually and asexually, although usually sexually.
  • PRASINPHYCEAE
    2

    PRASINPHYCEAE

    It reproduces sexually.
  • 3

    CHARALES

    They reproduce sexually.
  • 4

    BRYOPHYTAS (terrestrial plants)

    Appeared 475 million years ago. They reproduce both sexually and vegetatively.
  • Liverworts
    5

    Liverworts

    Type of Bryophyta. They reproduce sexually.
  • 6

    FILICINOPHYTAS

    Includes the club mosses, horsetails and ferns. They reproduce asexually.
  • Mosses
    7

    Mosses

    Type of bryophyta. They reproduce asexually.
  • Ferns
    8

    Ferns

    Type of Filicinophyta. Appeared 430 million years ago
  • ANGIOSPERMOPHYTA
    9

    ANGIOSPERMOPHYTA

    Includes all the flowering plants, pollinated by wind or animals. Appeared 360 million years ago. They reproduce both sexually and asexually
  • 10

    GYMNOSPERMAE

    Appeared 360 million years ago. They reproduce sexually.
  • Conifer
    11

    Conifer

    Type of Gymnosperma. They reproduce sexually.
  • Ephedra
    12

    Ephedra

    Type of Gymnosperma. They reproduce sexually.
  • Ginkgo
    13

    Ginkgo

    Type of Gymnosperma. They can reproduce both sexually and asexually.
  • Cycas
    14

    Cycas

    Type of Gymnosperma. They reproduce both sexually and asexually.