BOT 125 - Cladograms

Phyla studied in class

  1. Each Phylum name and each name of an inclusive clade is a link to the survey of the botanical Phyla.
  2. If you hold the mouse cursor over the names of inclusive clades or paraphyletic groups, they will change to the associated color in the cladogram.

Cladogram of the Phyla studied in class Euglenophyta Myxomycota Dictyosteliomycota Dinophyta Rhodophyta Oomycota Bacillariophyta Phaeophyta [animals] Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Chlorophyta Anthocerophyta Bryophyta Lycophyta Psilotophyta Sphenophyta Pterophyta Cycadophyta Ginkgophyta Coniferophyta Gnetophyta Anthophyta Hepatophyta Inclusive clades:
Heterokonts
Fungi
Green Plants
Land Plants
Vascular Plants
Fern allies
Seed Plants

Paraphyletic and polyphyletic groups:
"algae"
"molds"
"bryophytes"
"pteridophytes"
"gymnosperms"


Dicots and Monocots

Cladogram of representative dicots and monocots, showing that the dicots are paraphyletic Flower parts in 3 One cotyledon No secondary growth Atactostele Flower parts in 4 or 5 Tricolpate pollen

Homologies:

  1. Tricolpate pollen
  2. Flower parts in 4 or 5
  3. Atactostele
  4. One cotyledon
  5. No secondary growth
  6. Flower parts in 3

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Winter Quarter, 2003
© 2003 by Curtis Clark
jcclark@csupomona.edu