Wednesday, December 8, 2010

club mosses

Club mosses ( lycopods)

  • They are vascular cryptograms
  • Kingdom plantae--> tracheophytes--> vascular cryptogams--> club mosses
  • Stroboli- characteristic structures
    • Hold spores
  • Growth pattern
    • Grow in circles
    • Grow in groups with other species of club moss
    • Often grow on runners of multiple attached club mosses
  • Spore use
    • As an old fashioned flash for a camera
    • Very bright when dried and ignited
  • Sporophyte v gametophyte

  • Microphylls- tiny leaves that cover the whole plant
    • Makes them diff from ferns

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