Cormophyte

Cormophytes (Cormophyta) is a historical term seldom used today for the plants that are differentiated into roots, stems and leaves. These plants differ from thallophytes, whose body is referred to as the thallus, i.e. a simple body not differentiated into leaves and stems. Definitions have varied, notably about whether mosses and liverworts are included.^[1]^[2]

Stephan Endlicher, a 19th-century Austrian botanist, divided the vegetable kingdom in 1836 into two groups: the thallophytes were only the algae, lichens and fungi, and the cormophytes were the mosses, liverworts, ferns, Equisitaceae, club mosses and seed plants.^[3]

References

^ Lawrence E. (1999): Henderson's Dictionary of biological terms. Longman Group Ltd., London, ISBN 0-582-22708-9.
^ "Definition of cormophyte | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
^ Stephan Endlicher (1836–1840). "Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita". F. Beck; The Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Lawrence E. (1999): Henderson's Dictionary of biological terms. Longman Group Ltd., London, ISBN 0-582-22708-9.

[2] "Definition of cormophyte | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com. Retrieved 2022-04-28.

[3] Stephan Endlicher (1836–1840). "Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita". F. Beck; The Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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