3. Mosses
Characteristics of mosses
Simplest plants
No true roots, No vascular tissues (no transport).
Simple stems & leaves
Have rhizoids for anchorage
Spores from capsules (wind-dispersal)
Damp terrestrial land
4. Ferns
Roots, feathery leaves & underground stems
have vascular tissues (transport & support)
Spore-producing organ on the
underside
of leaves (reproduction)
Damp & shady places.
Characteristics of Ferns
Spore
Producing
Organs
Circinate
Young
Leaf
5. Gymnosperms
Tall evergreen trees roots,
woody stems needle-shaped
leaves.
Vascular tissues (transport)
Cones with reproductive
structures
Naked seeds in female cones dry
places
Characteristics of GymnospermsMale
Cones
(In Cluster)
Female
Cones
(Scattered)
Needle
Shaped
Leaves
7. Monocotyledons
Parallel
Vein
Monocotyledons are a class of flowering plants (angiosperms),
whose embryo (seed) store only one cotyledon. The APG II
system recognizes a clade called "monocots" but does not
assign it to a taxonomic rank. You can recognize a monocot by
its leaves: they have long parallel veins running down the leaf.
e.g. grass, maize
8. Dicotyledons
Parallel
Vein
The dicotyledons, also known as dicots, are one of the
two groups into which all the flowering plants or
angiosperms were formerly divided. The name refers to
one of the typical characteristics of the group, namely that
the seed has two embryonic leaves or cotyledons.
e.g. daisies, hawthorns, oaks.