Plant Organisms

Marchantia polymorpha

Known as the common liverwort.

It is large and widely distributed, with species all over the world.

Psilotum nudum

This is an up-close view of a whisk fern, a primitive vascular plant bearing 3-lobed sporangia. Organisms such as this were abundant 300 million years ago.

Selaginella lepidophylla

Called the Resurrection Plant, this plant can turn from a dried up ball into a leafy green plant overnight by soaking in water. It is native to Arizona and Texas.

Equisetum hyemale

This horsetail is a primitive vascular plant.

It is also called a scouring rush because the stems used to be used to clean pots and pans.

Lycopodium clavatum

A club moss native to Oregon.

It has only one kind of spore, a condition termed homosporous

Cycas rumphii

Commonly known as Queen Sago.

It is a small tree that grows about 10 m in height.

It is part of a species comples.

Ginkgo biloba

Common name: Maidenhair tree

This is the only species of the Phylum Ginkgophyta.

It is a large tree that has deciduous fanlike leaves.

It is popular in cities for it tolerates pollution well.

Gnetum gnemon

Common name is often melinjo.

It is native to the Pacific Northwest

It is a small to medium sized tree.

Juniperus communis

This conifer is known as the common juniper.

Its berries are actually ovule-producing cones consisting of fleshy sporophylls.

Selaginella apoda

This lycophyte is a spike moss that is commonly known as meadow-spike moss.

It is found primarily in damp soils and it is mainly a lowland plant.

The plant was originally described by Carl Linnaeus himself.

Equisetum arvense

This pterophyte known as the common horsetail.

With jointed stems, rings of small leaves at the joints, and the stem being the main photosynthetic center, this species is the epitomy of an arthrophyte.

Plagiochila deltoidea

This is a leafy liverwort that lives on wet ground.

It can get up to 60 mm long.

Anthoceros agrestis

Commonly called a field hornwort.

This species of Anthocerophyta is known fro containing acids like cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase.

Psilotum nudumThis is whisk fern of

the phylum pterophyta commonly called Skeleton Fork Fern.

It has no roots.It is considered a

primitive plant, possibly a descendent of the first vascular plants.

Wollemia nobilis

An evergreen tree known commonly as the Wallemi pine. It is a survivor of a conifer group once known only from fossils.

It was discovered in 1994 in a national park in Sydney, Australia.

It consists of merely 40 known individuals.