Liverworts are considered the first true plants, emerging around 470 million years ago. While angiosperms and algae are important in plant evolution, they do not qualify as the earliest true plants. Algae are more primitive, and angiosperms are advanced flowering plants, not the initial forms. ;
Liverworts are identified as the first true plants, emerging around 470 million years ago. They are non-vascular plants that played a key role in the colonization of land by plants. Both angiosperms and algae, while important, do not represent the first true plants.
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