flora in spain

Flora

in Spain

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Index

introduction

fungi

mosses

lichens

vascular plants

Flowers

Introduction

Within European territory, Spain has the largest number of plant species (7,600 vascular plants) of all European countries. In Spain there are 17,804 million trees and an average of 284 million more grow each year.

Fungi

Fungi

A fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from the other eukaryotic kingdoms, which by one traditional classification include Plantae, Animalia, Protozoa, and Chromista.

Mosses & Lichens

Mosses

Lichen

• The lichen diversity in Spain is high and has forced us to condense the contents, but we have tried to include most of the representative epiphytic lichens that are found in the main types of ecosystems, from the coastal areas to the high mountains of the territories peninsular.

• Mosses are a type of bryophyte plants, along with liverworts and hornworts. All bryophytes are non-vascular plants, which means that it is a primitive type of vegetation that does not have xylem or phloem through which to transport its nutrients and substances internally.

Vascular plants

• Vascular plants, also called tracheophytes, form a large group of land plants that have lignified tissues for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant. They also have a specialized non-lignified tissue (the phloem) to conduct products of photosynthesis. Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants). Some early land plants (the rhyniophytes) had less developed vascular tissue; the term eutracheophyte has been used for all other vascular plants, including all living ones.

Flowers

daisy flower

carnation

Poppies

lavender

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