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Characteristics of Adiantum Pteridiophytes

This document provides information about the pteridophyte Adiantum. It discusses that pteridophytes are a diverse group of land plants and Adiantum is classified in the fern family. It then summarizes Adiantum's characteristics including that it is a homosporous plant that dwells in moist, shaded areas and reproduces through spore production and a heart-shaped prothallus.

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Characteristics of Adiantum Pteridiophytes

This document provides information about the pteridophyte Adiantum. It discusses that pteridophytes are a diverse group of land plants and Adiantum is classified in the fern family. It then summarizes Adiantum's characteristics including that it is a homosporous plant that dwells in moist, shaded areas and reproduces through spore production and a heart-shaped prothallus.

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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

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