Question

what is the function of gemma cups ?​

Answer 1

Answer

The production of gemmae is a widespread means of asexual reproduction in both liverworts and mosses. In liverworts such as Marchantia, the flattened plant body or thallus is a haploid gametophyte with gemma cups scattered about its upper surface. The gemma cups are cup-like structures containing gemmae.

Answer 2

Gemma cups are structures which look like cups. In the dorsal part of the gametophyte, mainly of bryophytes, these gemma cups are borne.

Functions -

1. Gemma cups contains many uncountable number of gemmae which are the reproductive bodies.

2. When the gemmae present in the gemma cups becomes mature, then they began to germinate and forms a new plant. So, by this gemma cups helps in reproduction vegetatively.