Transcript Plant Portfolio

By: Mandy Payne
1st hour
5-9-11
Sphagnum
Description: they are the most
primitive and grow upon others
Features: seedless, lack vascular
tissue, produce spores
Location: found on shady forest floors
Importance: they create a layer of
soil allowing other plants to be able
to grow and prevent soil erosion
Lunularia
cruciata
Description: they are transparent
leaf like structures found along a
steam like axis
Features: thalloid (a flat body with
distinguishable upper and lower
surfaces)
Location: grow in moist , shady areas
Importance: helps in the reduction of
soil erosion and retention of water
in tropical rainforests
Anthocerophyta
Description: each cell has a large
chloroplast instead of many small
ones, only a small group are around
Features: they have an elongated horn
Location: moist, shaded areas
Importance: soil stabilization and
enrichment
Phaeoceros
Psilotophyta
Description: oldest known phylum and
are epiphytes
Features: lack leaves and roots but
have a stem
Location: tropical and temperate
regions
Importance: Hawaiians collect the
spores and use them as talcum
powder
Psilotum
nudum
Huperzia
haleakalae
Description: found 380 million years
ago, and are conelike structure
Features: have true roots and leaves
Location: tropical and temperate
regions, on forest floors
Importance: used by herbal healers
to relieve muscle cramping and
liver complaints
Spenophyta
Equisetum
Pterophyta
Matteuccia
Description: found 350 million years
ago, have beautiful feathery leaves
Features: have rhizomes, fiddleheads,
fronds
Location: all climates, on forest
floors, some in full sun, and some
aquatic
Importance: they convert nitrogen to
a form plants can use
Cycadophyta
Description: have male
or female plants,
about 100 species
Features: coralloid
roots, lack axillary
buds, have little
wood
Location: the tropics
Importance: they can
be eaten in economic
hard times, and are
used in trade
Ceratozamia
hildae
ginkgo biloba
Pinus Strobus
Coniferophyta
Gnetophyta
Ephedra
Description: look like horsetails
Features: jointed stems
Location: deserts
Importance: source of ephedrine
Anthophyta
Description: found 185 million years ago,
have a successful growing season,
Features: seeds protected by fruit,
efficient vascular system
Location: diverse habitats
Importance: they give off an odor that
helps gather flies which helps aid in
pollination
Rafflesia
Monocotyledon
Description: have on cotyledon in their
embryo
Features: parallel venation, scattered
vascular bundles, flower petals in
threes
Location: grasslands, palm savannas,
sedge meadows, and cattail marshes
Importance: food, housing materials,
and tools
Liliopsida
Dicotyledon
Description: have two cotyledons in
their embryo
Features: net venation, arranged
vascular bundles, flower petals in
fours or fives
Location: New Zealand, tropical places
Importance: help put organic
materials in soil
Magnoliopsida
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http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Plantae/Hepatophyta_Phylum.asp
Google images
Holt book
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/anthocerotophyta.html
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/webb/bot201/hornworts/Anthocerophyt
a-1.html
http://www.washjeff.edu/greenhouse/Pnudum/
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/204819/fern/49911/Importanceto-humans
http://www.users.muohio.edu/smithhn/cycad.htm
http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/FPAS/bcs/bl14apl/gym2.htm
http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Importance-Of-Ginkgo-Biloba-InHuman-Life/913869
http://www.dailypuppy.com/articles/what-does-the-rafflesia-flowerdo/30b4f45a-f926-7bb7-da74-b5a70868e5ce
http://tolweb.org/Monocotyledons
http://www.bookrags.com/research/monocots-plsc-03/