Plants - Nonseeding Flashcards

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Bryophyta (Mosses)

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Small leaves with thick cell walls. Sporophytes are capsule like growths on top of the moss.

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Hepatophyta (Liverworts)

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Nonvascular plants that have gametophytes that resemble little palm trees.

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Anthocerophyta (Hornworts)

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Very small mosses with needle-like projections as the sporophyte.

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Lycophytes

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Spike Mosses(heterosporous), quillworts(heterosporous), and club mosses(Homospourous) 
Mosses produce sporophylls called strobili.
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Pterophyta

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Ferns - large frond leaves with multiple smaller leave divisions. Sori on bottom of the leaf (sporophyll).
Horsetails(Equisetum) - long stalks with sporophyll on the top. Very minor leaves.
Whisk Ferns - similar to ferns but have yellow knobs on the tips made of three fused sporangia.

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