Plantae

See also: plantae and plantæ

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

(kingdom in Eukaryota): Animalia, Fungi, Protozoa, Chromista[1]

References

Plantae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Plantae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Plantae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Green_plants at the Tree of Life Web Project

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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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