1. Botany Lab Prep SEEDLESS VASCULAR PLANTS BIO 201 - BOTANY

2. Taxonomy Division Lycophyta – club mosses Lycopodium and Selaginella * microphylls * one sporangium per sporophyll Division Sphenophyta – horsetails * microphylls (not photosynthetic) * sporangia clustered into strobili Division Polypodiophyta – ferns aka Pteridophyta * megaphylls * many sporangia per sporophyll

3. Lycophyta - Lycopodium True vascular tissue (root, stem, leaf) Leaves as microphylls

4. Lycopodium All microphylls alike Spores on microphylls or strobili

5. Lycophyta - Selaginella Anisphyllous microphylls Stobili present

6. Lycophyta – slide materail Rhizome x.s. Lycopodium strobilus l.s.

9. Sporophyll (whole thing) Sporangium (rounded object) Spores (small, red)

10. Sphenophyta - horsetails

11. Polypodiophyta - ferns

12. Fern fronds Fiddlehead

13. Fern frond with sprangia

15. Sorus types: Naked Marginal Umbrella