Review for Exam 2 Flashcards
Four classes of monilophytes
- psilotopsida: whisk ferns, moonworts 2. marattiopsida: marattioid ferns 3. polypodiopsida: remaining ferns 4. equisetopsida: horsetails
Equisetopsida
one living genus, equisetum
Important concepts/terms for equisetopsida
- node/internode 2. whorled leaves and branches 3. storbilus with peltate sporanigiophores 4. gametophyte and sporophyte generations can live on their own 5. fossil diversity greater, could be trees
stem regions of equisetum
pith, cortex,
vascular bundles, epidermis
What is the defining feature of polypodiopsida?
LEPTOSPORANGIUM!
Which group in polypodiopsida is heterosporous?
SALVINALES (water ferns)
What is a fern leaf often called?
Frond!
Pinnately compound leaf
once-pinnate twice-pinnate or bipinnate
what are the structures that (estan enrrollados)
fiddleheads!
Immature leaf structures coiled?
circinate vernation
Cluster of sporangia?
sorus
outgrowth of leaf that covers the sporangia (sorus)
indusium
Eusporangium
- >1 initial (cell from which sporangium develops) 2. wall >1 cell layer thick 3. no annulus 4. bigger w/ more spores 5. no stalk 6. living vascular plants excluding polypodiopsida
Leptosporangium
- 1 initial (cell from which sporangium develops) 2. capsule wall 1 cell layer thick 3. annulus 4. smaller w/ fewer spores 5. often stalk 6. polypodiopsida
Prothallus
gametophyte
water ferns
- sporangia in specialized structures 2. sporocarps
Marattiopsida
- six living genera 2. tropical 3. good fossil record 4. large megaphylls, circinate vernation 5. fleshy rhizomes or upright stems
Psilotopsida
includes two orders: 1. orphioglossales 2. psilotales psilotum!!!
Psilotum
The whisk fern: NO ROOTS OR LEAVES 1. rhizome with rhizoids 2. enations 3. dichotomous branching 4. synangia 5. protostele or siphonstele
Early polysporangiophytes
- dichotomizing axes 2. no roots, no leaves 3. terminal sporangia 4. sporangia 5. protostele 6. gametophytes unisexual, upright gametangiophores