Botany Lab- Bryophytes and Ferns Quiz

What are the characteristics of non-vascular plants? What phylums in this lab are part of this group?

• no true leaves: no vascular tissue

• gametophyte is the visible part of the plant

• haploid dominant life cycle

• Phylum Hepaticophyta: Marchantia

• Phylum Bryophyta: Mosses

What are Merchantia? What is the prominent structure?

• liverworts

• prominent structure: gametophyte

Describe the life cycle of Phylum Bryophyta (mosses).

Describe the vascular seedless plants.

• pteridophytes: ferns and fern allies

• vascular

• seedless

• sporophyte is the visible part of the plant

• diploid is the dominant cycle

• Phylums:

  • Phylum Psilotophyta: Psilotum

  • Phylum Lycophyta: Selaginella & Lycopodium

  • Phylum Equisetophyta: Equisetum

  • Phylum Polypodiophyta: Ferns

Describe the life cycle of Phylum Psilotophyta (whisk ferns).

Describe the life cycle of Phylum Lycophyta (ground pines).

Describe the life cycle of Selaginella (resurrection plant).

Phylum Lycophyta

Describe the life cycle of equiseta (horsetails and scouring rushes).

Describe the life cycle of Phylum Polypodiophyta (ferns).