1. Pterophytes (Ferns and Relatives)
What types of plants are seedless and vascular?
How do Ferns reproduce?

2. Types of Seedless Vascular Plants
Club Mosses
Ancient species grew to be over 10 stories tall
Lycopodium looks like mini pine tree

3. Types of Seedless Vascular Plants
Whisk Ferns – grow in tropics and subtropics
Horsetails
Grow in wetlands
Have leaves that grow in whorls around stem

4. Types of Seedless Vascular Plants
Ferns
Have underground stems (rhizomes)
Leaves are called fronds

5. Frond With Sori

6. Fern Reproduction

7. Fern Reproduction Sporophyte Stage (Fern Plant)
Produces a sorus made of sporangia that contain haploid spores
Gametophyte Stage (Prothallus)
Contain antheridium and archegonium