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ThallophytaThallophytae (lat.); Thallophyten (ger.)

• A plant belonging to the lowest of the great groups in the vegetable kingdom, comprising those of which the vegetative body is a thallus, including Algæ, Fungi, and Lichens; a cellular cryptogam. (OED 2011)
  category plant see also Cormophyta

  1836

  CONSPECTUS DISPOSITIONIS. […]

  I. THALLOPHYTA.

  1. Protophyta.

  2. Hysterophyta.

  II. CORMOPHYTA.

  3. Acrobrya.

  ... 1. Anophyta.

  ... 2. Protophyta.

  ... 3. Hysterophyta.

  4. Amphibrya.

  5. Acramphibrya.

  ... 1. Gyranosperma.

  ... 2. Apetala.

  ... 3. Gamopetala.

  ... 4. Dialypetala.

  Endlicher, S. (1836-41). Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita: 1.

  1852

  Such cellular plants have received the name of Thallogens or Thallophytes; while those producing stems composed of both vessels and cells are sometimes called Cormogens or Cormophytes.

  Balfour, J.H. (1852). Class Book of Botany, vol I: 69.

  1854

  These tribes, from having no foliaceous axis but simply a cellular expansion, have been called Thallogens or Thallophytes.

  Balfour, J.H. (1854). Botany. Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. V, 65-239: 142.

  1894

  Die Thallophyten enthalten mannigfaltige Pflanzengestalten, die in ihren vegetativen Theilen einen einzelligen oder einen mehrzelligen, mehr oder weniger reich verzweigten Thallus vorstellen.

  Schenck, H. (1894). Specielle Botanik, Erste Abtheilung. Cryptogamen. In: Strasburger, E. (ed.). Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen, 258-363: 259.