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Definition of Schizophyta
1. Noun. Former term for the Cyanophyta.
Group relationships: Division Eubacteria
Member holonyms: Class Schizomycetes, Schizomycetes, Family Myxophyceae, Family Schizophyceae, Myxophyceae, Schizophyceae
Generic synonyms: Division
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schizophyta
Literary usage of Schizophyta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Class I.—Schizophyta. For the most part exceedingly small organisms, which
propagate entirely by asexual methods. They consist of isolated cells, ..."
2. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"... animals or plants, but on the whole the balance of probability would seem to
be in favour of regarding them as autonomous organisms. III. Schizophyta. ..."
3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1902)
"... the lowest group of genuine plants is the Schizophyta,— Fission-plants, — so
called because of the formation of cells by fission only. ..."
4. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1907)
"... the lowest group of genuine plants is the Schizophyta, — Fission-plants, — so
called because of the formation of cells by fission only. ..."
5. The Principles of Biology by John Irvin Hamaker (1913)
"Schizophyta.—The organisms belonging to this class are very simple in structure.
There is no well-defined nucleus and the cells are usually very small. ..."
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