Cormophytes (Cormophyta) is a historical term seldom used today for the plants that are differentiated into roots, stems and leaves.
These plants differ from thallophytes, whose body is referred to as the thallus, i.e. a simple body not differentiated into leaves and stems.
Definitions have varied, notably about whether mosses and liverworts are included.
[1][2] Stephan Endlicher, a 19th-century Austrian botanist, divided the vegetable kingdom in 1836 into two groups: the thallophytes were only the algae, lichens and fungi, and the cormophytes were the mosses, liverworts, ferns, Equisitaceae, club mosses and seed plants.
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