Participants will be informed in detailed way about five main evolutionary degrees of embryophytes ("bryophytes", "psilophytes", "pteridophytes", "gymnosperms" and angiosperms) and their fossil representatives. The lecture should provide a modern systematical overview together with a presentation of fossil specimens.
1) Bryophytes
2) Psilophytes
(Protracheophyta, Paratracheophyta , Zosterophyllophyta, Trimerophytophyta)
3) Pteridophytes
(Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta, Progymnospermophyta)
4) Gymnosperms
(Lyginodendrophyta, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Pinophyta, Gnetophyta)
5) Angiosperms
Lectures and practical demonstrations will be presented together.