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Examples of lycophytes include club mosses, spike mosses, and quillworts. These plants are small and typically have creeping or upright stems with small leaves. Lycophytes are considered some of the oldest vascular plants.
Club mosses, such as the genus Lycopodium, are an example of lycophytes. They are small, moss-like plants that reproduce by spores and are considered one of the oldest groups of vascular plants.
Yes, during the Paleozoic era, lycophytes, which are primitive vascular plants, were dominant in forests. These plants had small leaves and reproduced by spores. Lycophytes contributed significantly to the vegetation that existed during that time period.
The lycophytes are a small and inconspicuous group of plants today, but in the Carboniferous some lycophytes were forest-forming trees more than 35 meters tall. Lycophytes are the oldest extant group of vascular plants, and dominated major habitats for 40 million years. The club mosses (Lycopodiales) are usually evergreen, and have been used as Christmas decorations, though their flammable spores and increasing rarity has made this illegal in some states. Other lycophytes, such as Selaginella, may form extensive carpets in the understory of wet tropical forests. The most significant feature of lycophytes are microphylls, a kind of leaf which has arisen and evolved independently from the leaves of other vascular plants. The microphyll has only a single unbranched strand of vascular tissue, or vein, whereas megaphylls, found in other plants with leaves, have multiple veins, usually branching one or more times within the leaf. Happyfeet360 wrote this.
No, tracheophytes and pteridophytes are not the same thing. Tracheophytes refer to vascular plants that have specialized tissues for water and nutrient transport, including both seed-producing plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms) and non-seed plants (ferns, horsetails, and lycophytes). Pteridophytes specifically refer to non-seed vascular plants that reproduce via spores, such as ferns, horsetails, and lycophytes.
The four groups of vascular plants are Lycophytes, Pterophytes, Gymnosperms, and Angiosperms.Plants in the following groups are:Lycophytes: Club mosses, Spike Mosses, QuilwortsPterophytes: Ferns, Horsetails, Whisk FernsGymnosperms: Ginko tree, ConiferAngiosperms: Flowers
Here are a few:Seedless Non vascular Plants:Bryophytes:MossesLiverwortsHornwortsSeedless Vascular Plants:LycophytesClub MossesSpike MossesQuil MossesPterophytesFernsWhisk FernsHorsetails
Xylem are small tubes in vascular plants that carry water up from the roots to its leaves etc
Vascular Plants, transport water from the roots to the stems and leaves
Two ways scientists can divide vascular plants are into seedless vascular plants and seed plants. Seedless vascular plants are comprised of the lycophytes (club mosses, spike mosses, and quillworts) and pterophytes (ferns, horsetails, and whisk ferns) and do not produce seeds. Seed vascular plants are comprised of gymnosperms (ginkgo, cycads, gnetophytes, and conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants). Gymnosperms can be distinguished by their "naked seeds," while angiosperms produce flowers and fruits.
Plants are highly diverse and their are several types of plants. Two major types of plants are Green Algae ( Charophyceans) and Land Plants.From their plants evolve into:Bryophytes: non-vascular plants: [Ex: liverworts, hornworts, mosses]Next diversifying into 2 types of Vascular Plants (Seedless & Seed)Lycophytes, Pterophytes : Seedless Vascular PlantsGymnosperm, Angiosperms: Seed Vascular Plants