Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Rhyniophyta Cronq., Takht. et Zimmerm. † |
| class | Trimerophytopsida A.S. Foster et Gifford † |
| order | Trimerophytales H. Banks ex S.V. Meyen † |
| family | Trimerophytaceae Bierhorst † |
| genus | Psilophyton Dawson emend. Hueber et H.P. Banks † |
| species | Psilophyton hedei Halle † |