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

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

Included, by definition, in total clade

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

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

Node-based clade

Spermatophyta (Clade) Britton & Brown 1896 [Crane & Kenrick 1997], nom. cl. inval.

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

Original position

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

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

Subsequent positions

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

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

Original entries

†Calamopityales (Order) Němejc (1963)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98). [implicit]
Euspermatales (Clade) Crane & Kenrick 1997, nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98).
†Hydraspermales (Order)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98). [implicit]
†Lyginopteridales (Order) Havlena (1961)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98). [implicit]
†Medullosales (Order) Havlena (1961)		Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 6 (p. 97), 7 (p. 98). [implicit]

Subsequent entries

Questionably Acrogymnospermae (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: fig. 1.
Ginkgo (Genus) L. (1771)		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E18 ("total clade"), fig. 1.
Pan-Angiospermae (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E18.
Pan-Coniferae (Clade) Cantino, Donoghue & Doyle 2007, nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E18.
Pan-Cycadophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E18.
Pan-Gnetophyta (Clade) Doyle, Donoghue & Cantino 2007, nom. cl. inval.		Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E18.

Current position

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

Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17. [new rank]

Alternative positions

euphyllophytes ([unranked])	Ref: D.J. Mabberley, 2008: 929.
Lignophyta (Clade) Crane & Kenrick 1997, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: table 7 (p. 98).

Historical positions

euphyllophytes ([unranked])	Ref: D.J. Mabberley, 2008: 811, 929.
Apo-Spermatophyta (Clade) Cantino & Donoghue 2007, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.D. Cantino et al., 2007: E17-E18, table 1 (p. [E]5), fig. 1. [new rank]
Lignophyta (Clade) Crane & Kenrick 1997, nom. cl. inval.	Ref: P.R. Crane & P. Kenrick, 1997: tables 7 (p. 98), 9 (p. 102); fig. 1.

Number of Subtaxa

2008	D.J. Mabberley: 811	425f;13,064g;272,000s
2008	D.J. Mabberley: 811	[4c;62o];425[430]f;13,064g;272,000s