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PAGE 3 第一部分 动物、植物、生物学 Classification of Plants The newer classification system lists all of the more than 300,000 known plants in just two phyla, the Bryophytes and the Tracheophytes. Bryophytes, the mosses and liverworts, are usually soft and nonwoody in structure, take in water through short root-like filaments called rhizoids, and may have stems and simple leaves but, unlike the more complex Tracheophytes, do not have true roots or vascular tissue whose function it is to circulate water, food, and essential minerals throughout the organism. Tracheophytes are divided into four sub-phyla