Evolution of Plants
Evolution of land plants (Embryophyta)

Evolution of land plants
Info to cladogram
- Extinct lineages are not shown.
- Phylogeny was prepared according to Leliaert et al., 2016.
- Years are medians of years summarized by Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, version 13 and in Leliaert et al. 2016.
- Only selected “morphological” apomorphies are presented.
Links
- endosymbiosis – Keeling, 2010
- stem ages for genera of main goups of Embryophyta – Figure 1 in Laenen et al., 2014.
Deepest branches in the evolutionary tree
- summarized are by Cavalier-Smith, 2010a
Classification of the Cyanobacteria
Info to cladogram
- Extinct lineages are not shown.
- Phylogeny was prepared according to Komárek et al. 2014.
- Ultrastructural patterns of thylakoids and apomorphies of Nostocales are presented (Komárek et al. 2014.).
Other life with aerobic photosynthesis
- secondary (and tertiary) endosymbiosys – Cavalier-Smith, 2010b
- Euglenozoa in Protozoa
- several clades of Chromista
