Gymnosperm classes are the four classes that GBIF files under the vascular plants for the gymnosperms, Pinopsida, Cycadopsida, Ginkgoopsida and Gnetopsida, of which Pinopsida is much the largest with about 4,276 descendant taxa against about 1,622 for Cycadopsida, 604 for Ginkgoopsida and 369 for Gnetopsida. The Pinopsida hold the conifers, which the Tree of Life also lists under the names Coniferales and gymnosperms, with the order Pinales alone carrying about 3,573 descendant taxa. The Gnetopsida hold three orders, Gnetales, Ephedrales and Welwitschiales.
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GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Tracheophyta
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Tracheophyta
"canonicalName":"Pinopsida","vernacularName":"Conifers","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"CLASS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":4276
Children of Tracheophyta: Cycadopsida
"canonicalName":"Cycadopsida","vernacularName":"cycads","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"CLASS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":1622
Children of Tracheophyta: Ginkgoopsida
"canonicalName":"Ginkgoopsida","vernacularName":"Ginkgo","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"CLASS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":604
Children of Tracheophyta: Gnetopsida
"canonicalName":"Gnetopsida","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"CLASS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":369
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Pinopsida
GBIF SecretariatChildren of PinopsidaQuote, Children of Pinopsida
"canonicalName":"Pinales","vernacularName":"Pines","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"ORDER","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":3573
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Gnetopsida
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Gnetopsida
"canonicalName":"Welwitschiales","vernacularName":"welwitschia","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"ORDER","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":13
Children of Gnetopsida: Gnetales
"canonicalName":"Gnetales","vernacularName":"gnetophytes","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"ORDER","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":187
Children of Gnetopsida: Ephedrales
"canonicalName":"Ephedrales","vernacularName":"Ephedra","authorship":"","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"ORDER","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":158
View the Source Tree of Life Web Project: Conifers
Tree of Life Web ProjectOther Names for ConifersQuote, Other Names for Conifers
Other Names for Conifers Coniferales gymnosperms Gymnospermae
Wikipedia: Conifer
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Conifers () are a group of vascular plants and a subset of gymnosperms.
Wikidata: Cycadophyta
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Cycads, constituting the division Cycadophyta-are seed plants with a stout, woody cylindrical trunk with a crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and usually pinnate (feather-shaped) leaves.
Wikipedia: Ginkgoopsida
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Ginkgoopsida is a proposed class of gymnosperms defined by Sergei V. Meyen in 1984 to encompass Ginkgoales (which contains the living Ginkgo) alongside a number of extinct seed plant groups, which he considered to be closely related based on similarities of morphology of pollen, seeds, cuticles, short shoots and
Wikipedia: Gnetidae
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Gnetidae, commonly known as gnetophytes, is a subclass of gymnosperms within the class Pinopsida.
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