Phylogenetic Tree for Zea mays

Common Ancestor of Green Plants (Viridiplantae) 

│ 

├── Chlorophytes (Most Green Algae, e.g., Volvox, Chlamydomonas) 

│

 └── Streptophytes 

         │ 

         ├── Charophyte Algae (Closest algal relatives to land plants, e.g., Chara) 

                │ 

                └── Embryophytes (Land Plants) 

                 │ 

                 ├── Bryophytes (Non-vascular plants) 

                  │ ├── Liverworts 

                  │ ├── Mosses 

                  │ └── Hornworts 

                  │ 

                  └── Tracheophytes (Vascular Plants) 

                          │ 

                          ├── Seedless Vascular Plants 

                          │ ├── Lycophytes (Clubmosses, Spike mosses, Quillworts) 

                          │ └── Monilophytes (Ferns, Horsetails, Whisk ferns) 

                         └── Spermatophytes (Seed Plants) 

                                │ 

                                ├── Gymnosperms (Naked Seeds) 

                               │ ├── Cycads 

                               │ ├── Ginkgo

                                │ ├── Conifers (Pines, Firs, Spruces) 

                                │ └── Gnetophytes 

                                └──Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) 

                                      │ ├── Basal Angiosperms (e.g., Amborella, Water Lilies) 

                                      │ ├── Magnoliids (e.g., Magnolias, Laurels, Black Pepper) 

                                      │ ├── Eudicots (True Dicots, vast majority of flowering plants) 

                                      │ └── (e.g., Roses, Oaks, Sunflowers, Beans) 

                                      └── Monocots 

                                           │ ├── Other Monocots (e.g., Lilies, Orchids, Palms) 

                                          └── Poales 

                                              │ ├── Other Poales (e.g., Sedges, Rushes) 

                                              │ 

                                              └── Poaceae (Grasses) 

                                                   │ ├── Other Grasses (e.g., Wheat, Rice, Sugarcane) 

                                                   └── Panicoideae 

                                                      │ ├── Other Panicoideae (e.g., Sorghum, Millet) 

                                                   └── Andropogoneae

                                                       │ ├── Other Andropogoneae (e.g., other Zea species, Tripsacum)  

                                                       │

                                                       └── Zea 

                                                         │ └── Zea mays (Corn)