Plantae
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin planta (“plant, twig, sprout”).
Proper noun
Plantae
- A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota – the plants. About 300,000 species of organism that all contain chlorophyll to obtain energy from the sun.
Hyponyms
- (kingdom): angiosperms - clade; Anthocerotophyta, Bryophyta, Charophyta, Chlorophyta, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Gnetophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Marchantiophyta, Pinophyta, Pteridophyta; †Pteridospermatophyta (extinct) - phyla
- or
- (kingdom): Biliphyta, Viridiplantae - subkingdoms
- Chlorophyta, Streptophyta - infrakingdoms in Viridiplantae[1]
Coordinate terms
References
- Plantae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Plantae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Plantae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Green_plants at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248