Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Plantae - (Phylum) Tracheophyta

Phylogeny

Node-based clade

Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: table 9 (p. 102).

Defined by the most recent common ancestor (and all its descendants) of

Nymphaea odorata Aiton (1789)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: table 9 (p. 102).
†Rellimia thompsonii		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: table 9 (p. 102).

Apomorphy-based clade

Lignophyta (Clade) Crane & Kenrick 1997, nom. cl. inval.

Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17.

Original position

Radiatophyta (Clade) Crane & Kenrick 1997, nom. cl. inval.

Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98).

Subsequent positions

Pan-Spermatophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval.

Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E19, fig. 1.

Original entries

†Aneurophytales (Order) Beck (1957)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98). [implicit]
†Archaeopteridales (Order) W.Zimm. (1930)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98). [implicit]
†Protopityales (Order) Walton (1957)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98). [implicit]
Spermatophyta (Clade) Britton & Brown 1896 [Crane & Kenrick 1997], nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98).

Subsequent entries

†Aneurophyton (Genus) Kräusel & Weyland (1923)		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: fig. 1.
Apo-Spermatophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17, fig. 1.
†Archaeopteris (Genus) Dawson (1871)		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: fig. 1.
†progymnosperms ([unranked])		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17.

Current position

Pan-Spermatophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007 [Cantino, Doyle & Donoghue 2020]

Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17; Wang et al., 2021: fig. 4; Cantino et al., 2007: fig. 1. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Pan-Spermatophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17; Cantino et al., 2007: fig. 1. [new taxon]
Radiatophyta (Clade) Crane & Kenrick 1997, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: table 7 (p. 98). [new taxon]

Historical positions

Pan-Spermatophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17, table 1 (p. [E]5), fig. 1. [new taxon]
Radiatophyta (Clade) Crane & Kenrick 1997, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 7 (p. 98), 9 (p. 102); fig. 1. [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

2025

Available in Systema Naturae 2000

5c;73o;431f;13,784g;7902s;370ss;514v;1; ‡1g;2s; †13c;39o;74f;699g;50s