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The Plant Kingdom has a little less than 400,000 species, which is currently divided into five phylums. The largest number of plant species fall into the one phylum, which is Angiosperm. Too, all of the phyla groups are divided into even smaller groups, known as classes.
The Taxonomy, (or divisions of classification for every living organism) is: (1.) Kingdom, (2.) Phylum, (3.) Class, (4.) Order, (5.) Family, (6.) Genus and (7.) Species.
However, the wise men of the earth are currently endeavoring to classify everything into categories according to how it evolved, with their ongoing debates raging on and on. Methinks that they will never learn the truth because they eliminate the completely obvious, that all organisms were created by God. (But don′t try to tell them this because they will just make fun of you and your belief that there is a God.)
With all this wisdom among these worldly wise, is their understanding a totally new way of dividing the plants. No, actually the truth concerning all living organisms is beginning to emerge, a truth about life that is even more complicated than has ever been understood. Therefore, to keep my photo galley as simple as possible, I will go back to the basics that I was taught when I was in college, when the evolution fad was not as popular.
General Description:
Phylum Angiosperm:
The phylum Angiosperm comes from the Greek words: angeion meaning covered and sperma meaning seed. (Greek translation: covered seeds) The phylum Angiosperm contains the plants that most of us are very familiar with and thus includes all flowering plants which develop their seeds within a protective structure or encasement commonly called a fruit. Of all the species within the plant kingdom, about 380,000, the phylum angiosperm is the largest and most diverse phylum 64 orders, 416 families, about 13,000 genera and 300,000 known species.
An angiosperm leaf consists of a single, branched, main vein, which originates from the base of the leaf blade. In few plants, it may also consist of four or more main veins diverging from the same base.
Angiosperm Main Characteristics
1. Vascular:
organisms with fluid carrying channel or channel system.
The designation Vascular refers to the plant tissues, the xylem and phloem, both of which conduct water, sap, and nutrients within all such plants.
2. Seeds:
organisms which produce seeds.
The reproduction process is by the development of seeds within an ovary enclosed in sporophtye tissue, which itself is embedded in a flower. After the flower is fertilized, the flower falls off and the ovary bulges to become a fruit.
3. Flowers:
organisms which produce flowers.
The primary distinguishing feature of Angiosperm plants from all of the other seed producing plants (known as the Gymnosperm) is that all of the Angiosperm plants produce flowers, whereas the Gymnosperm plants do not produce flowers.
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