Vascular Tissue

In modern plants, we tend to differentiate between vascular and non-vascular plants. In the fossil record, we observe several prevascular and early vascular plants with tracheids that differ from modern plants. As would be expected, there is a grade of plants and vascular cells that evolved during the Silurian Period.

Below is a listing of the grade of vascular tissues found in extinct and extant plants

Pre-vascular plants and bryophytes

Basal tracheophytes

  S-Type tracheids

Basal eutracheophytes: e.g. Cooksonia and zosterophyllphytes

  C-type tracheids 

  G-Type tracheids

Eutracheophytes: e.g. euphyllophytes and derived lycophytes

  P-Type tracheids

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