Composition of The Flora
Ireland has a small flora for a European country because of its small size and lack of geological and ecological variation and its Ice Age history. There are 3,815 species of plant listed for Ireland:
- Phylum Anthocerotophyta – hornworts: 3 species
- Phylum Bryophyta – mosses: 556 species
- Phylum Charophyta – charophytes: 244 species
- Phylum Chlorophyta – green algae: 148 species
- Phylum Lycopodiophyta – clubmosses: 9 species
- Phylum Magnoliophyta – flowering plants: 2,196 species
- Phylum Marchantiophyta – liverworts: 229 species
- Phylum Pinophyta – pines: 12 species
- Phylum Pteridophyta – ferns: 79 species
- Phylum Rhodophyta – red algae: 339 species
An additional 2,512 species of fungus occur in Ireland.
- Phylum Acrasiomycota – cellular slime molds: 1 species
- Phylum Ascomycota – sac fungi: 1,115 species
- Phylum Basidiomycota – club fungi, mushrooms, shelf fungi, puff balls: 1,228 species
- Phylum Chytridiomycota – chytrids: 4 species
- Phylum Microsporidia – 1 species
- Phylum Myxomycota – plasmodial slime moulds: 112 species
- Phylum Oomycota – water moulds: 40 species
- Phylum Zygomycota – pin or sugar moulds: 11 species
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