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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Vascular Plants

<em>Darwiniothamnus alternifolius</em>, Isabela Island.

Darwiniothamnus alternifolius, Isabela Island.

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The Vascular Plants constitute the largest group of land plants. They have conducting vessels for transport of water and minerals (xylem) and for products of photosynthesis (phloem).
Photosynthesis normally takes place in the leaves; these are attached to stems strengthened by lignin.

Vascular Plants have traditionally been divided into three groups: spore-reproducing plants (clubmosses and ferns), plants with naked seeds (conifers and other gymnosperms), and plants with seeds enclosed in a fruit (flowering plants).

Current taxonomy distinguishes four taxonomic divisions: Pteridophyta, Cycadophita, Pinophyta and Magnoliophyta.
These divisions are represented in Galapagos with a total of over 1400 species (endemic, native, and introduced, including cultivated species).


Editors: Patricia Jaramillo Díaz, Anne Guézou.

Other Contributors: Henning Adsersen, Ivan Aldáz, María José Alencastro, Joselyn Basantes, Chris Buddenhagen, Baltasar Cabezudo, Susana Chamorro, Pablo Cuenca, Miguel Cueva, Ricardo Escobedo, Luis Espinoza, Diana Gil, César Gómez-Campos †, Jacinto Gordillo, Ana Mireya Guerrero, Ole Hamman, Syuzo Itow, Pablo Izquierdo, Heinke Jäger, Mery Juiña, Ondina Landázuri, Jonas E. Lawesson, Ruth Llumiquinga, Leila López, Simon Lægaard, André Mauchamp, Conley McMullen, Luis Mora, Ximena Palomeque, Duncan M. Porter, Paola Pozo, Eliana Ramírez, Diego Reyes, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Marco Rodríguez, Victor Rueda, Adam Schneider, Daniel Segura, Alan Stewart, Mónica Tapia, Francisco Tobar, Maria M. Trigo, Alan Tye, Jorge Vera, Adolfo Verdugo, Diego Villagómez, César Vinueza, Daniel Weber, Ira L. Wiggins.

Checklists

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This list should be cited as follows:

Jaramillo Díaz, P., Guézou, A. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Vascular Plants - FCD Lista de especies de Plantas Vasculares de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/vascular-plants/ Last updated 18 Mar 2011.