What are Pteridophytes:
Pteridophytes are referred to as cryptogram since they do not produce seeds or blooms, they have well-developed vascular tissue, xylem, and phloem these plants are classified as vascular plants. They can grow up to 30 meters long, and they are the closest relative of fruit and root-producing plants- angiosperm and conifers.
The sporophytes are the most prominent in pteridophytes gametophytes & sporophytes are autotrophs, gametes are microscopic and multicellular. Gametophytes develop both antheridia and archegonia, archigonia produces eggs and antheridia produces sperm inside the same plants. Therefore pteridophytes are also known as unisexual plants. After fertilization zygote develops into sporophytes, pteridophytes consist of neither flowers nor seeds they reproduce via spores. Some pteridophytes are Microspores, and Megaspores & some are Homospores.
E.g. Mosses, ferns, Spikemosses, etc.
Difference Between Bryophytes And Pteridophytes
The plant is classified into four major parts root, stem, leaf & flower. However, plants are also classified according to their flowering plants are called Angiosperm and others are called non-flowering plants Gymnosperm. Plants are all non-motile and autotrophic in nature.
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