Project in Biology KINGDOM PLANTAE

Salvatore Rogelio C. Guerrero

NON- VASCULAR PLANTS

Bryophyta (Mosses)

MOSSES
*Have conducting tissues in the center of their stems and may grow vertically. *Familiar, low green soft masses on ground, usually in moist places.

Hepaticophyta (Liverworts)

LIVERWORTS
Have liver-shaped leaves When liverworts grow on bare rock or tree bark, their dead and decaying body parts contribute to the initial stages of soil formation.

ANTHOCEROTHOPHYTA (Hornworts)

HORNWORTS Hornworts are a very unusual group of plants.

Hornworts are a problematic group for evolutionary biologists.

VASCULAR PLANTS
(Seedless Plants) Pterophyta (Ferns)

FERNS
Most ferns have a perennial underground stem (called a rhizome). Roots and fronds arise from the rhizome. Young fronds are coiled "fiddleheads". Mature fronds are divided into leaflets. Spores form on the lower surface of some fronds. Sori are clusters of sporangia that release spores that develop into small heartshaped gametophytes.

PSILOPHYTA (Whisk ferns)

WHISK FERNS
No roots, but they have aerial stems. Leaves- scale-like or megaphyll-like. Most are found in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Americas.

ANTHROTOPHYA (Horsetails)

HORSETAILS
Hollow, segmented stems Minute bristle-like gray-brown fronds Horsetails are practically indistinguishable from fossils 400 million years old.

LYCOPHYTA (Club mosses)

LYCOPHYTA
Short stems with microphylls Heterosporous, two kinds of spores separate male & female gametophytes.

(Seed Plants) CONIFEROPHYTA (Conifers)

CONIFERS
Conifers are most important group of gymnosperms

Largest and most familiar group

Bear seeds in cones

CYCADOPHYTA (Cycads)

CYCADS
Short shrubs, native to tropical regions (look like palms). Used as ornamental plants Seeds or starch from stem consumed, but neurotoxins may remain!

GINGKOPHYTA (Gingkos) - one species, living fossil, taxon common in Mesozoic, rediscovered in central China - delightful smelling fruits, leaves as traditional medicine

GNETOPHYTA (Gnetophytes)

*Found only in deserts. *Usually dioecious with "flowers.

(Seeds enclosed with a fruit) ANGIOSPERMS (Flowering plants)

DICOTS
Two seed leaves Netted/reticulate venation Flower parts in 4s or 5s or in multiples of these

MONOCOTS
One seed leaf Parallel leaf veins Flower parts in 3s or multiples of 3s

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