Vascular plants
Tracheophyta
Multicellular: stems, leaves, and roots; thalloid gametophytes
Whiplash (2 to 1000+)
Sieve cells, forming phloem (food), and tracheids, forming xylem (water)
Vegetative, various multicellular propagules
Homosporous or heterosporous
Lycophyta, Psilotophyta, Sphenophyta, Pterophyta, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Coniferophyta, Gnetophyta, Anthophyta
Free-living, branched sporophytes; xylem