Plantae
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Translingual
Etymology
From Latin planta (“plant, twig, sprout”).
Proper noun
Plantae
- A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Eukaryota – all 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
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- (kingdom): Biliphyta, Viridiplantae - subkingdoms
- Chlorophyta, Streptophyta - infrakingdoms in Viridiplantae
Coordinate terms
References
Plantae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Plantae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Plantae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Plantae at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Plantae placement and circumscription (click icon for description) at AlgaeBase
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248