thumb '''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.<ref>Lawrence E. (1999): Henderson's Dictionary of biological terms. Longman Group Ltd., London, {{ISBN|0-582-22708-9}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Definition of cormophyte {{!}} Dictionary.com |url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cormophyte |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=www.dictionary.com |language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14572#page/9/mode/1up |title=Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita |author=Stephan Endlicher |year=1836–1840 |publisher=F. Beck; The Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
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Category:Plants Category:Biological classification Category:Historically recognized plant taxa
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