The document provides an overview of plant classification, dividing plants into flowering and non-flowering categories, with further distinctions among ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms. It describes characteristics of various groups, including mosses, which are simple, non-vascular plants; ferns, which possess vascular tissues and reproduce via spores; and gymnosperms and angiosperms characterized by their reproductive structures and seed types. The document also highlights the differences between monocotyledons and dicotyledons based on leaf structure and seed leaves.

1. Classification
Classification
of Plants
of Plants

2. Plant Kingdom
Flowering
Plants
Non-flowering
Plants

3. Ferns
Ferns
Mosses
Mosses
Non - flowering Plants
Do NOT produce flowers

4. A plant can be divided into 3 parts
A plant can be divided into 3 parts

5. Examples of Mosses
Examples of Mosses

6. spores
Spore-producing capsule

7. ● No true roots, No vascular tissues (no transport)
Characteristics of Mosses
Characteristics of Mosses
● Simple stems & leaves
● Have rhizoids for
anchorage
● Spores from capsules
(wind-dispersal)
● Damp terrestrial land
● Simplest plants

9. underground
stem
root
A leaf (finely
divided into
small parts)

11. ● roots, feathery leaves & underground stems
Characteristics of Ferns
● have vascular tissues
vascular tissues (transport & support)
● Damp
Damp & shady
shady
places
● Spore-producing
Spore-producing
organ
organ on the
underside of
leaves
(reproduction)

12. 
 2
2 groups
groups
Gymnosperms
Gymnosperms Angiosperms
Angiosperms
Flowering
Plants
●roots, stems, leaves
●vascular tissues (transport)
●flowers, fruits (contain seeds)

14. needle-shaped leaves

15. Male cones
(in clusters)
Female cones
(scattered)

16. ● roots, woody stems
Characteristics of Gymnosperms
Characteristics of Gymnosperms
● needle-shaped leaves
● tall evergreen trees
● cones with reproductive
structures
● dry places
● vascular tissues (transport)
● naked seeds in female cones.

17. ● Highly developed
● Flowering Plants
● Seeds inside ovary
2 TYPES
● MONOCOTYLEDONS
● DICOTYLEDONS

18. Monocotyledons
Monocotyledons
Parallel veins

19. ●one seed-leaf
Characteristics of Monocotyledons
Characteristics of Monocotyledons
● leaves have parallel veins
●herbaceous plants
●e.g. grass, maize

20. Dicotyledons
Dicotyledons
Veins in network

21. ●two seed-leaves
Characteristics of Dicotyledons
Characteristics of Dicotyledons
●leaves have veins in network
●e.g. trees, sunflower, rose

22. Plant Classification
Plant Classification
Non-flowering
Plants
Flowering
Spore-bearing
Naked seeds
No
roots
with
roots
Mosses Ferns
Gymnosperms
1 seed-
leaf
2 seed-
leaves
Monocots Dicots
Angiosperms