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Thallophyte vs Tracheophyte - What's the difference?

thallophyte | tracheophyte |

In botany terms the difference between thallophyte and tracheophyte

is that thallophyte is any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta while tracheophyte is : Any plant possessing vascular tissue (xylem and phloem), including ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.

thallophyte

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.
  • * 1994 , Estrelita A. Madriaga, Anthony Lee, Felicitas B. Ventura, Orlando A. Oronce (coordinator), Biology: Science and Technology II , page 347,
  • They[algae, fungi and mosses] lack the vascular tissues; thus, they are called thallophytes'. Algae are '''thallophytes''' with chlorophyll.Fungi are ' thallophytes without chlorophyll.
  • * 1994 , Pat E. Rasmussen, Chapter IV.5: Mercury in Vegetation of the Precambrian Shield'', Carl J. Watras, John W. Huckabee (editors), ''Mercury Pollution: Integration and Synthesis , page 422,
  • In general, the usefulness of the thallophytes' as Hg bioindicators was limited by their sporadic occurrence in the forest environment. Because of the importance of the ' thallophytes as components of the food chain, however, several samples from different groups (summarized in Table 2) were collected for comparison with values reported in the literature.
  • * 1999 , R. G. Hermann, The Chloroplast: Part of the Integrated Genetic System of the Plant Cell'', Joan H. Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou, Horst Senger (editors), ''The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology , page 66,
  • Fossile(sic) records along with molecular, cytological and morphological phylogenetic work favour a single origin of land plants from charophycean thallophytes , and indicate that several major lineages of vascular plants had evolved more than 400 million years ago.

    Synonyms

    * (plant consisting of thallus only) thallogen

    Coordinate terms

    * cormophyte

    See also

    * bryophyte * cryptogam * non-vascular plant * pteridophyte * spermatophyte

    tracheophyte

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany): Any plant possessing vascular tissue (xylem and phloem), including ferns, conifers, and flowering plants.
  • * 1997 , Karl J. Niklas, The Evolutionary Biology of Plants , page 179,
  • By virtue of the presence and absence of vascular tissues, the tracheophytes' and the bryophytes were also considered two distinctly different levels of anatomical organization. Largely for these reasons, the bryophytes and the ' tracheophytes are traditionally viewed as two distinct lineages, though they trace their evolutionary history back to a common ancestor.
  • * 2010 , P. K. Strother, Thomas Servais, Marco Vecoli, The effect of terrestrialization on marine ecosystems: the fall of CO2'', Marco Vecoli, Gaël Clément, B. Meyer-Berthaud (editors), ''The Terrestrialization Process , page 40,
  • The tracheophytes (vascular land plants) have a fossil record beginning in the Wenlock (Edwards et al. 1983).
  • * 2012 , Philippe Steemans, Elodie Petus, Pierre Breuer, Paula Mauller-Mendlowicz, Philippe Gerrienne, Paleozoic Innovations in the Micro- and Megafossil Plant Record: From the Earliest Plant Spores to the Earliest Seeds'', John A. Talent (editor), ''Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time , page 443,
  • There is a clear relationship between tracheophytes and trilete spores, but not with cryptospores.

    Synonyms

    * (plant with vascular tissue) vascular plant

    Antonyms

    * (plant with vascular tissue) bryophyte, non-vascular plant, thallus

    Derived terms

    * paratracheophyte * protracheophyte

    See also

    * Tracheobionta * Tracheophyta