One of the two largest groups of plants in the plant kingdom (the other is the angiosperms, or flowering plants). Gymnosperms, which typically form their seeds in the open spaces of cones, include all the conifers as well as the cycads. See also
gymnosperms
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| Cycadopsida (botany) |
| Ephedrales (botany) |
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- Bennettitatae (paleobotany)
- Cycadopsida (botany)
- Ephedrales (botany)
- Gnetopsida (botany)
- pollen sac (botany)
- Cycadicae (botany)
- endosperm (botany)
- Ginkgoales (botany)
- Progymnospermopsida (paleontology)
- resin duct (botany)
- Paleophytic (paleobotany)
- Pinophyta (botany)
- sieve cells (botany)
- sieve elements (botany)
