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A persentation of botany
By
Rooshana Sadaqat
General Characteristics of Pteridiophytes
(Adiantum)
Introduction to pteridiophytes
• Pteridophtyes are a phylum of plants.
• There are about eleven thousand different species of
pteridophytes, making them the most diverse land
plants after the flowering plants (angiosperms).
• Pteridophytes may represent the closest living
relatives (sister group) to the seed plants.
Adiantum
• Division Pteropsida
• Class Leptosporangiopsida
• Order Filicales
• Family Polypodiaceae
• Genus Adiantum
General Characteristics
• Dwelling
• Vegetative attributes
• Morphological attributes
• Reproduction
Dwelling:
• Pteridophytes are considered as the first plants to be evolved on land
• Because of the shiny black rachis of the leaves,adiantum is also called
maiden hair fern.
• It is found in plains of Punjab, Pakistan.
• It grows ubiquitously wherever nature offers a moist, shaded locality.
There are nearly 200 species.
• Maidenhairs are intolerant of direct sun, thriving in indirect or filtered
light, high humidity and rich, moist soil.
• They are also grown for ornamental purposes.
Vegetative attributes:
• Asexual reproduction occurs by spore formation
and sexual reproduction occurs by zygote formation.
• The plant is homosporous sporophyte.
• Sporogenesis was scrutinized from sporangial initial
of a single surface cell to the annulus shedding
spores explosively.
Morphological attributes:
• The plant body is differentiated into roots, stem and leaves.
Stem is in form f rhizome actually.
• Rhizome is a perennial, subterranean dichotomously
branched structure and is creeping in A. capillus-veneris .
• Roots actually arise from stem. Roots are adventitious and
may be branched.
• Leaves The leaves are also called fronds and are pinnately
compound.
Reproduction
• The life cycle of adiantum is characterized by alternation of
generation and both the spore and gamete producing generations
are independent.
• Adiantum is homosporous. The reproduction takes place by the
production of spores. The spores are produced in sporangia.
• The prothallus of adiantum is heart shaped. It is remain single
layered at the margins and cells are thick in middle. Contain a single
disc shaped chloroplast. There is no mycorhizal fungus in the
prothallus
Pteridophytes

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Pteridophytes

  • 1.
  • 2. A persentation of botany By Rooshana Sadaqat
  • 3. General Characteristics of Pteridiophytes (Adiantum)
  • 4. Introduction to pteridiophytes • Pteridophtyes are a phylum of plants. • There are about eleven thousand different species of pteridophytes, making them the most diverse land plants after the flowering plants (angiosperms). • Pteridophytes may represent the closest living relatives (sister group) to the seed plants.
  • 5. Adiantum • Division Pteropsida • Class Leptosporangiopsida • Order Filicales • Family Polypodiaceae • Genus Adiantum
  • 6. General Characteristics • Dwelling • Vegetative attributes • Morphological attributes • Reproduction
  • 7. Dwelling: • Pteridophytes are considered as the first plants to be evolved on land • Because of the shiny black rachis of the leaves,adiantum is also called maiden hair fern. • It is found in plains of Punjab, Pakistan. • It grows ubiquitously wherever nature offers a moist, shaded locality. There are nearly 200 species. • Maidenhairs are intolerant of direct sun, thriving in indirect or filtered light, high humidity and rich, moist soil. • They are also grown for ornamental purposes.
  • 8. Vegetative attributes: • Asexual reproduction occurs by spore formation and sexual reproduction occurs by zygote formation. • The plant is homosporous sporophyte. • Sporogenesis was scrutinized from sporangial initial of a single surface cell to the annulus shedding spores explosively.
  • 9. Morphological attributes: • The plant body is differentiated into roots, stem and leaves. Stem is in form f rhizome actually. • Rhizome is a perennial, subterranean dichotomously branched structure and is creeping in A. capillus-veneris . • Roots actually arise from stem. Roots are adventitious and may be branched. • Leaves The leaves are also called fronds and are pinnately compound.
  • 10. Reproduction • The life cycle of adiantum is characterized by alternation of generation and both the spore and gamete producing generations are independent. • Adiantum is homosporous. The reproduction takes place by the production of spores. The spores are produced in sporangia. • The prothallus of adiantum is heart shaped. It is remain single layered at the margins and cells are thick in middle. Contain a single disc shaped chloroplast. There is no mycorhizal fungus in the prothallus