Fern

A fern is ony o a group o aboot 12,000 species o plants that belangs the botanical group kent as Pteridophyta.[3] Unalike mosses, thay hae xylem an phloem (makkin them vascular plants). Thay hae stems, leafs, an roots like ether vascular plants. Ferns reproduce via spores an hae neither seeds nor flouers.

Ferns
Temporal range: Late Devonian[1]Present
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Scientific classification e
Kinrick:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Cless:Polypodiopsida
Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm.
Subclasses[2]
  • Extant
    • Equisetidae
    • Marattiidae
    • Ophioglossidae
    • Polypodiidae
  • Extinct
    • †Cladoxylopsida
    • †Zygopteridales
    • †Stauropteridales
    • †Rhacophytales
Synonyms
  • Monilophyta
  • Polypodiophyta
  • Filicophyta
  • Filices

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