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| Lycopodiaceae(Phylum Lycophyta) |
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Club Mosses and quillworts |
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| Psilotaceae(Phylum Psilotophyta) |
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| Equisetum(Phylum Equisetophyta) |
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The Horsetails and Scouring Rushes
Have high silicon content in fibers |
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| Leptosporangiatae(Phylum Polypodiophyta) |
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Leaves with more than one vein and a leaf trace associated with leaf gap Called fronds in ferns |
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Leaves with single vein whose trace is not associated with a leaf gap |
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| What are the key characteristics of Equisetophyta? |
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1. Sporophytes have ribbed stems containing silica
2. They have whorled, scalelike microphylls that lack chlorophyll |
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| What are the key characteristics of Psilotophyta? |
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1. Sporophytes have neither true leaves, nor roots.
2. Stems and rhizomes fork evenly.
3. Have neither leaves nor roots
4. Enations along stems. |
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| What are the key characteristics of Lycophyta? |
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| Plants covered with microphylls. Short growing plants that lack leaf gaps. |
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| Alternation of generations |
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| Life cycle involving sexual reproduction that alternates between diploid sporophyte phase and haploid gametophyte phase |
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The producer of sporocytes The larger, most obvious stage of the fern reproduction cycle |
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Small, reproductive generation in which the gametes unite to form sporophyte |
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Smaller division of a fern frond |
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Sporangium-bearing leaves |
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1. Found in discrete clusters called sori
2. Hold spore cells
3. Sori may be protected by indusia
4. Has heavy-walled cells=annulus that catapults spores out of sporangium |
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| Selaginellacae(Selliganella) |
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| Thallus (Or protothallus when first forming) |
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| heart shaped free living gametophyte generation |
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