Describe features of lycopsida?
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Lycopsida:
Class of vascular plants known as lycopsida.
Features of lycopsida:
⇒The leaves usually small.
⇒They are seedless, vascular plants.
⇒The sporophyte has true roots, stem and leaves.
⇒Stele is protostelic or siphonostelic with sclerenchyma Tous pith.
⇒ The xylem in stem exarch.
Lycopsida:
It is a type of selaginella.
Selaginella is a tropical plant.
They grow in moist shady places.
Features:
It leaves are small and single microphyllus.
Microphyllus means a very short leaf.
They are called club mosses or spike mosses, this is due to club or spike shaped sterubilli and leaves like mosses.
They are also known as ground pries.
In some cases the leaves and sporophyllus of lycopsida are without a ligule.
Ligule is a narrow strap shaped part of a plant.
They are seedless.