Give 5 characteristics of the spermatophyte and example
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The spermatophytes, also known as phanerogams or phaenogams comprise those plants that produce seeds, hence the alternative name seed plants. They are a subset of the embryophytes or land plants.
Classification including examples: The extant spermatophytes form five divisions, the first four of which are traditionally grouped as gymnosperms, plants that have unenclosed, "naked seeds":
• Cycadophyta, the cycads, a subtropical and tropical group of plants,
• Ginkgophyta, which includes a single living species of tree in the genus Ginkgo,
• Pinophyta, the conifers, which are cone-bearing trees and shrubs,
• and Gnetophyta, the gnetophytes, various woody plants in the relict genera Ephedra, Gnetum, and Welwitschia.
The fifth extant division is the flowering plants, also known as angiosperms or magnoliophytes, the largest and most diverse group of spermatophytes. Angiosperms possess seeds enclosed in a fruit, unlike gymnosperms.
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