<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><dc:title xml:lang="en">Lycophyta</dc:title><dc:identifier>http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en?tema=31316251</dc:identifier><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher xml:lang="en">Getty Institute</dc:publisher><dcterms:created>2026-03-30 20:25:10</dcterms:created><dcterms:isPartOf xsi:type="dcterms:URI">http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en</dcterms:isPartOf><dcterms:isPartOf xml:lang="en">Tesaurus d&apos;Art i Arquitectura</dcterms:isPartOf><dc:format>text/html</dc:format> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">Division Lycophyta</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">club moss</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">club mosses</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">club mosses and tree scales</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">club-mosses</dcterms:alternative> <dcterms:alternative xml:lang="en">lycopodiophytes</dcterms:alternative> <dc:description xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Small plant distinguished by the club-like shape of its upright fertile spore-cases and the very small microphylls, a kind of leaf that arose and evolved independently from the leaves of other vascular plants; the microphyll has only a single unbranched strand of vascular tissue. While this division is a small and inconspicuous group of plants today, in the Carboniferous some lycophytes were forest-forming trees more than 35 meters tall. Lycophytes are the oldest extant group of vascular plants, and dominated major habitats for 40 million years. ]]></dc:description></metadata>