Seedless Vascular Plants:
A Walk in the Rain

We saw...

Lycophyta

Lycopodiella cernua
lycopodium_cernuum_field.jpg (35312 bytes)

Huperzia phlegmaria
Huperzia phlegmaria

Pterophyta

Dicranopteris linearis
dicranopteris_linearis_02.jpg (55426 bytes)

Nephrolepis acutifolia
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Asplenium nidus (Bird's Nest Fern)
asplenium_nidus_epiphytic.jpg (47410 bytes)

Thelypteris maemonensis
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Cyathea nigricans (tree fern)

Some local names for the plants we saw are listed at:
http://shark.comfsm.fm/~dleeling/microlangsvp.html

We learned among other things...

Lycophyta has cones
Pterophyta has sori
Plants in some of our cultures are divided into male and female plants

Some of the wet explorers before they got wet...

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