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2/17/2010 1 Post lab discussion http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/Webb/BOT201/BOT201/20198Theme.htm#Plantae:%20Pterophyta Vascular plants that do not produce seeds Spores only Vascular tissues: tracheids and sieve cells Description of Vascular Tissues which develop from Procambium hi i id h dd i Everything insidethe Endodermis Proto means first.

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Post lab discussion

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/Webb/BOT201/BOT201/201‐98Theme.htm#Plantae:%20Pterophyta

Vascular plants that do not produce seedsSpores onlyVascular tissues: tracheids and sieve cells

Description of Vascular Tissues which develop from Procambium

hi i id h d d iEverything inside the Endodermis

Proto means first.

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has a pith in the centerdivided Amphiphloic SiphonosteleConcentric vascular bundles with an Endodermis surrounding the bundle

Leaf gap

similar to the dictyostele but the bundles lack an endodermis and are collateral or bicollateral (open type)

perforations

collateral bundles (closed type) distributed in more that one ring within the Stem

no Endodermis

Division Psilotophyta

Division Lycophyta – Selaginella and dLycopodium

Division Pterophyta– ferns

Division Sphenophyta– horsetails or Equisetum

erect stems as well as Stolons and Rhizomes

can be epiphyticp p y

have Microphylls (leaves) and Roots

Branching is Dichotomous for both organs

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Trabeculae‐ cells of the endodermis‐ highly elongated and span an air space

Rhizomatous, stolonRoots are dadventitious

Megaphyllpredominate organizational pattern for fern leaves is Pinnate.

produced complex stelar organization in some ferns

f h di d l hilLeafy stems have dissected steles while Rhizomes (produce few or no leaves) have relatively undissected steles.

No leaf gap with leaf gap startingto form

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cortex

endodermisxylemphloem

Aerial Stems & Rhizomes

Grooved  JointedGrooved, Jointed

Microphyll, Whorled Arrangement

Leaves are fused and form a sheath around the stem at each node. 

The number of tips signifies the number of leaves.

Hollow canals‐Cells Destroyed by Elongation

Central canal

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•Thick Walls

•Cutenized

•Rough Surface = Silicon

•(Nick name = Scouring Rush)

Sclerenchyma(Ridges)

Cortical (Vallecular) Canals

CollenchymaChlorenchyma

Opposite the ridges

S l   lStele: eustele

caused by the destruction of Protoxylem during lElongation

May serve for conduction but not efficient

EndarchTracheids, in some vessels

lSieve elements metaxylem

protoxylem