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Thallophyte. Who is Thallophyte? What is Thallophyte? Where is Thallophyte? Definition of Thallophyte. Meaning of ... (138 words) |
 | They are sometimes referred to as "thalloid plants", as opposed to vascular plants. |
| Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher, a 19th-century Austrian botanist, separated the Vegetable Kingdom (equivalent of Kingdom Plantae) into the Thallophytes and the Cormophytes ( vascular plants) in 1836. |
| Thallophytes were known as the Thallogens according to John Lindley, an English botanist in the 19th century. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (583 words) |
| Up to the time of his death Endlicher aided von Martius in editing the latter's great work "Flora Brasiliensis" (Munich and Leipzig, 1840-1906); the work, a folio costing 6000 marks, was finally completed in 130 parts of 20,733 pages in all, and containing 3811 plates. |
| It was through Endlicher's exertions that von Martius was enabled to begin the bringing out of this work under the patronage, and with the financial aid, of the Emperor Ferdinand I. Endlicher's botanical MSS. |
| Endlicher became involved in the political movement of 1848; he was elected a member both of the German and the Austrian parliaments, but his political activities were not successful. |
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