DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vascular plants are also called tracheophytes. The term Tracheophyta is derived from the Greek word trachea (meaning a duct–a vessel in plants). The vascular plants are highly ordered, and land plants, including flowering vascular plants and ferns.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tracheophytes are a clade of plants that possess vascular tissue (i.e. xylem / phloem). This group includes all vascular plants, such as clubmosses, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants, but also ancestral and extinct groups such as the rhyniophytes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants). Scientific names for the group include Tracheophyta, Tracheobionta and Equisetopsida sensu lato.