BIOL 2004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lycopodiopsida, Heterospory, Selaginella

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Very prominent around 350 million years ago and were the main plant for 100 million years. Hypothesis of the origins of the seedless vascular plants. No true roots or leaves (have enaions instead of leaves) Have microphylls with a single leaf vein. Exinct ones were very tall and had roots: sphenophyta. Have vegetaive shoots (green and no strobilus) and ferile shoots (only for reproducion) The spores are covered in elaters which help in dispersal of the spores this makes them very diferent that spores that have been seen before. Sporangium is inside of the sporangiophore which is inside the strobilus photosyntheic gametes only one spore but have both archegonia and antheridia. When the sporophyte irst starts to grow, the gametophyte will dissolve as the sporophyte will take all the nutrients the vegetaive stalk is part of the sporophyte: pterophyta. Most successful and widespread group of seedless vascular plants. Most are homosporous but all water ferns are heterosporous.

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