The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

Unlike animals, plants lack a metabolically active pump like the heart to move fluid in their vascular system. Instead, water movement is passively driven by pressure and chemical potential gradients.

Clubmosses, as the earliest vascular plant group, have leaves with only a single vein of xylem down the middle, in contrast to the more complexly veined leaves of trees and even ferns. Nevertheless, ...

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Although many of the early seedless vascular plants have gone extinct, you can still find some of them growing today. Like, lycophytes were huge three hundred million years ago—literally.

Rabat - Scientists estimate that nearly two in five plant species face extinction and over 31% of the world’s 390,000 known ...

In fact, plants developed their complex vascular network because of evolutionary pressure, from drought, which in turn allowed them to live and thrive on dry land. Brett Huggett works with students in ...

Plants lived on land, but most of the land was still bare of life. Then there was an important development in the evolution of plants — vascularization. This was the introduction of tubes in the ...

Unlike vascular plants — which use tube-like tissues to transport water and nutrients — mosses have no such system and instead absorb water into their cells directly through osmosis.