Question

Define cryptogamy. Name the plants that come under cryptogamy.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Cryptograms are plants with hidden (inconspicuous) reproductive organs. External flowers or seeds are absent and they have naked embryos called spores.

The thallophytes, the bryophytes, and the pteridophytes are collectively called cryptograms.

Answer 2

Answer:

cryptogam (plural cryptogams) Any plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.