This document discusses the morphological features, anatomy, and reproductive organs of Cycadeoidea, an extinct plant group from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Cycadeoidea trunks were spherical and unbranched or branched, resembling modern cycads. The stems had vascular bundles and a large pith. Reproductive organs occurred in clusters and contained both male and female structures. Male structures bore pollen sacs on branching sporophylls. Female structures consisted of ovule-bearing receptacles with hundreds of stalked ovules and scales.
• Gymnosperms (Gymnos = naked, Sperma = seed) include the small group of plants with naked seeds.
• The Gymnosperms originated in the Devonian period of the Paleozoic Era and formed the supreme vegetation in the Mesozoic Era.
• Gymnosperms (Gymnos = naked, Sperma = seed) include the small group of plants with naked seeds.
• The Gymnosperms originated in the Devonian period of the Paleozoic Era and formed the supreme vegetation in the Mesozoic Era.
About 20,000 species.
Eukaryotic cell and contain all the membrane bound organelles.
Thallus is green due to the presence of green pigment chlorophyll.
Chlorophyll is contained in chloroplast.
Pyrenoids embedded in chloroplast.
Cytoplasm contains vacuoles.
Motile cell of primitive forms contains eye spot or stigma.
Reserve carbohydrates are in the form of starch.
Cell wall invariably contains cellulose.
Produce motile reproductive bodies generally with two or four flagella.
Most are aquatic but some are subarial.
Several species of ulvales and siphonales are marine.
Some strains of chlorella are thermophilic.
Species of chlamydomonas and some chlorococcales occur in snow.
Coloechaete nitellarum is endophytic.
Cephaleuros is parasitic – cause ‘red rust of tea’.
Live epizoically on or endozoically within the bodies of lower animals – chlorella is found in hydra; chlorella beneath the scales of fish; characium on the antennae of mosquito.
Green algae in assosciation with the fungi constitute lichens.
Embyrology in relation to Taxonomy. It is one of the concepts in Modern Taxonomy.in which embryological data is used to strengthen existing classification system.
The "Telome theory" of Walter Zimmermann (1930, 1952) is the most accepted theory that is based on fossil record and synthesizes the major steps in the evolution of vascular plants.
It describes how the primitive type of vascular plants developed from Rhynia like plants.
About 20,000 species.
Eukaryotic cell and contain all the membrane bound organelles.
Thallus is green due to the presence of green pigment chlorophyll.
Chlorophyll is contained in chloroplast.
Pyrenoids embedded in chloroplast.
Cytoplasm contains vacuoles.
Motile cell of primitive forms contains eye spot or stigma.
Reserve carbohydrates are in the form of starch.
Cell wall invariably contains cellulose.
Produce motile reproductive bodies generally with two or four flagella.
Most are aquatic but some are subarial.
Several species of ulvales and siphonales are marine.
Some strains of chlorella are thermophilic.
Species of chlamydomonas and some chlorococcales occur in snow.
Coloechaete nitellarum is endophytic.
Cephaleuros is parasitic – cause ‘red rust of tea’.
Live epizoically on or endozoically within the bodies of lower animals – chlorella is found in hydra; chlorella beneath the scales of fish; characium on the antennae of mosquito.
Green algae in assosciation with the fungi constitute lichens.
Embyrology in relation to Taxonomy. It is one of the concepts in Modern Taxonomy.in which embryological data is used to strengthen existing classification system.
The "Telome theory" of Walter Zimmermann (1930, 1952) is the most accepted theory that is based on fossil record and synthesizes the major steps in the evolution of vascular plants.
It describes how the primitive type of vascular plants developed from Rhynia like plants.
Equisetum popularly known a the ‘horse-tail’ or ‘scouring rush’.
It is now represented by nearly 30 species which are seen world wide except in Australia and New Zealand.
Some species prefer damp and shady places while others grow in marshes, ponds or stream banks
Some are found in xerophytic habitats
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1. 1.History of Cycadeoidea
2.Morphological Features of Cycadeoidea
3.Anatomy of Cycadeoidea
4.Reproductive Organs of Cycadeoidea
5.Microsporophyll in Cycadeoidea
6.Gynoecium of Cycadeoidea
2. 1. History of Cycadeoidea:
• Cycadeoidea, also called Bennettites by several European palaeobotanists is
represented by about 30 species.
• The name Cycadeoidea was put forward in 1827 for petrified trunks from Isle of
Portland.
• Though Bennettites is still employed for plant fossils from the Isle of Wight,
Cycadeoidea is now the valid name of the genus.
• It has been reported from Upper Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous rocks of America, India,
Russia and several European countries.
• It occurs in the form of a large number of petrifactions in different parts of the world.
3. 2. Morphological Features of Cycadeoidea:
• The Cycadeoid trunks were short, stout, spherical to
sub-spherical and un-branched or branched.
• The trunks and leaves of many of its species show
remarkable resemblance with those of living Cycads.
• Some of the species were short while others
(Cycadeoidea jenneyana) attained a height of 3 to 3 .6
metres.
• The trunk generally attained a diameter of about 50
cm, and had many, persistent, rhomboidal leaf bases.
• A compact crown of Cycad-like, large, pinnately
compound leaves was present at the apex. The leaflets
had many parallel veins.
4. 3. Anatomy of Cycadeoidea:
• The stem was roughly circular or oval in outline. It remained covered
by heavy armour of leaf bases.
• The epidermis was not very distinct. The cortex was parenchymatous
and possessed many mucilage canals and leaf traces.
• Many conjoint, collateral, open and endarch vascular bundles
constituted the primary vasculature of the stem.
• A large centrally located pith was present.
• The xylem and the pholem have been studied in detail by Wieland (1906) .
• Most of the tracheids were rectangular in shape. They were scalariform. The tracheids of protoxylem
were spiral.
• The secondary xylem and the secondary phloem were traversed by secondary medullary rays, which
were either uniseriate or bi-seriate.
• Cambium was clearly visible.
• A leaf trace developed singly from the primary vascular strand.
• It divided into many mesarch strands upon entering into the cortex. At the place of its origin the leaf trace
was C-shaped.
5. 4. Reproductive Organs of Cycadeoidea:
• The Bennettitalean reproductive organs are designated as “flowers “.
• The flower buds in the plants were present in the axil of leaf bases. As many on
500 flower buds were present on a single trunk in species such as Cycadeoidea
dartonii (=Monanthesia dartonii).
• In several species of Cycadeoidea all the flower buds were present on a trunk at
almost the same stage of development. Some palaeobotanists believe that such
a plant might have flowered only once during its lifetime. Except a few species
(e.g. C. wielendii) the flowers in Cycadeoidea were bisexual.
• Hermaphrodite flower developed on a short pedicel. They were surrounded by
as many as one hundred bracts, which were hairy and protective.
• Flowers in different species were of different size. In Cycadeoidea dartonii
they attained a length of about 2 cm and a diameter of about 1.5 cm while in C.
dacotensis each flower was about 8 cm long and 3 cm in diameter.
• In C.dacotensis the lower two-third portion of the floral axis had about 100-150
bracts. A whorl of stamens was present above the bracts. Each stamen was
pinnately branched and each pinna had a double row of purse-shaped
sporangia.
• Each sporangium resembled with a synangium. A conical floral axis was
present just above the whorl of stamens. The entire compact structure
resembled with a strobilus.
6. 5. Microsporophyll in Cycadeoidea:
• According to Wieland (1906, 1916), the androecium or pollen-bearing region consisted
of about 20 pinnate, microsporophyll’s. These were somewhat fixed or united at the
base. Bean-shaped pollen capsules were arranged in two rows on each pinna of the
sporophyll.
• These microsporophyll’s remained folded round the gynoecium when young, but
probably at maturity they expanded. Delevoryas (1963), however, opined that the
microsporophyll’s never expanded.
• He further concludes that synangia-bearing structures, described as pinnae by Wieland
(1906), were similar to the trabeculae. These trabeculae established a connection
between outer and inner walls of the androecium. Pollen capsules or synangia were
borne along these trabeculae.
• Several (20-30) pollen sacs or microsporangia were present in a pollen capsule or
synangium. The wall of a synangium consisted of outer palisade-like, thick-walled
cells followed by thin-walled layer and then a tapetum.
• The tapetum was not clearly demarcated. The pollen grains were oval in shape and
measured up to 68fi in length. Multicellular pollen grains in Cycadeoidea have been
reported by Taylor (1973).
7. 6. Gynoecium of Cycadeoidea:
• The gynoecium receptacle was spherical or
conical in shape.
• Hundreds of the stalked ovule along with an
approximately equal number of inter-
seminal scales were present on the
receptacle.
• Each ovules was about 1 mm in length.
• The integument of the ovule was fused with the nucellus, except at the apex.
• The ovule was orthotropous with a long micropylar beak. A pollen chamber
and a nucellar beak was present in each ovule.
• The seed was somewhat elongated or oval in shape and possessed two
cotyledons.
• Crepet and Delevoryas (1972) reported a linear tetrad in the nucellar region
of Cycadeoidea.