Plant Anatomy Final Flashcards
Describe Selaginella’s spores
- Heterosporous
- Megaspore (tetrad)
- Microspores
Spike mosses, like resurrection fern
Selaginales
Is the germination of Equisetum exosporic or endosporic?
Exosporic
Describe Equisetum’s tapetum
plasmodial
Portion of embryo that differentiates into root tissues
Root
Describe Selaginella’s embryo polarity
Endoscopic, has a suspensor.
A suspensor is only found in plants with polarity.
Endoscopic
Is Lycopodium Leptosporangiate or Eusporangiate?
Eusporangiate, with kidney-shaped sporangia
- Known as “whisk fern”
- grows wild and is a greenhouse pest.
Psilotum
What type of embryo polarity does Psilotum have?
Exoscopic
What kind of embryo polarity does Lycopodium have?
Endoscopic
Is Isoetes homosporous or heterosporous?
Heterosporous
What type of leaves does Isoetes have?
microphylls
What kind of tapetum does Psilotum have?
Plasmodial
Is Psilotum heterothallic or homothallic?
Homothallic
Is the gametophyte of Equisetum homothallic or heterothallic?
Usually homothallic
What kind of tapetum does Lycopodium have?
Secretory
What type of leaves does psilotum have?
Emergences
- A-cell is up into the archegonium
- B-cel is at the base of the archegonium
- typical of psilotum, tmesipteris, and equisetum
Exoscopic
- Most common polarity
- A-cell is at the base of the archegonium
- B-cell is directed upwards
- typical of lycophytes and all seed plants
Endoscopic Polarity
The three orders of Division Lycophyta
- Lycopsidales
- Selaginales
- Isoetales
Is Lycopodium’s gametophyte homothallic or heterothallic?
Homothallic, and photosynthetic!
- Sporangia wall originate from a few surface cells
eusporangiate (primitive)
Describe Equisetum’s spores
- Homosporous
- Have elaters
- has “functional heterospory”