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Embryopsida , a new name for the class of land plants
Author(s) -
Pirani José Rubens,
Prado Jefferson
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.1002/tax.615014
Subject(s) - rank (graph theory) , class (philosophy) , code (set theory) , geography , computer science , genealogy , botany , biology , programming language , combinatorics , history , mathematics , artificial intelligence , set (abstract data type)
“Embryophyceae” and Equisetopsida have been used recently to designate the land plants at the rank of class. The former was never validly published. In this paper we propose a new name in the rank of class— Embryopsida Engler ex Pirani & J. Prado—, to replace Equisetopsida C. Agardh, which was used by Chase & Reveal (2009) to apply to all land plants. The new name here proposed follows Art. 16.1(b) of both the Vienna Code and the Melbourne Code and recognizes Adolf Engler’s use of the term “Embryophyta” to name the land plants, i.e., all plants provided with an embryo.