CHARACTERISTICS
CHARACTERISTICS
• Habitat: Grow in shady and damp environments
• Life Cycle: Undergo alternation of generations
• Spores: Can be either homosporous or heterosporous
• Structure: Have true roots and stems
• Group: Fern allies (includes club mosses, spike mosses, and quillworts)
• Examples: Lycopodium sp. (ground pines)
• Nutrition & Cell Type: Autotrophic, eukaryotic
• Structure: Have true stems, leaves, and roots
• Group: Includes ferns, horsetails, whisk ferns, and their relatives
• Special Features:
-Underground creeping rhizome
- Leaves called fronds
• Gametophyte Stage: Consists of prothallus and rhizoids
• Reproduction: By producing spores