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Encyclopedia > Sexual reproduction of plants
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Sexual reproduction of plants employs many different strategies. In essence it is any process by which new plant "individuals" arise with the help of production of seeds or spores. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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Morphology

See Plant sexuality Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. ...


Reproductive cycle

Plant taxomomy, among other aspects, takes into an account differing reproductive systems.


Bryophytes

Bryophyte is a botanical term which refers to any member of the following divisions of the Plantae kingdom: Bryophyta (mosses) Anthocerophyta (hornworts) Hepatophyta (liverworts) Despite the similarity in name, a bryophyte does not exclusively imply a species of the division bryophyta. ...

Pteridophytes

Classes Marattiopsida Osmundopsida Gleicheniopsida Pteridopsida A fern, or pteridophyte, is any one of a group of some twenty thousand species of plants classified in the Division Pteridophyta, formerly known as Filicophyta. ...

Seed plants

The spermatophytes comprise those plants that produce seeds. ...

Gymnosperms

Coast Douglas-fir cone, from a tree grown from seed collected by David Douglas Gymnosperms are seed-bearing, vascular plants. ...

Flowering plants

The flower is the most important adaptation for the sexual reproduction of plants. Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ...


Physiological mechanisms

See Self-incompatibility in plants, Dichogamy Pin flower of English primrose Thrum flower of English primrose Self-incompatibility is one strategy that evolved with the flowering plants to maintain genetic diversity in a species population and avoid inbreeding. ... Dichogamy is the temporal separation of gender in hermaphroditic organisms (e. ...


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