- The
lycophytes, when
broadly cir****scribed, are a
group of
vascular plants that
include the clubmosses. They are
sometimes placed in a
division Lycopodiophyta...
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Lycopodiopsida is a
class of
vascular plants also
known as lycopsids, lycopods, or
lycophytes.
Members of the
class are also
called clubmosses, firmosses, spikemosses...
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plants we see today. Ferns,
horsetails (often
treated as ferns), and
lycophytes (clubmosses, spikemosses, and quillworts) are all pteridophytes. However...
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Sigillaria is a
genus of extinct, spore-bearing,
arborescent lycophyte,
known from the
Carboniferous and
Permian periods. It is
related to the more famous...
- Selaginella, also
known as
spikemosses or
lesser clubmosses, is a
genus of
lycophyte. It is
usually treated as the only
genus in the
family Selaginellaceae...
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stages of growth. However, they are
correctly defined as
arborescent lycophytes. They
thrived during the
Carboniferous Period (358.9 to 298.9 million...
- polysporangiophytes.
Living embryophytes include hornworts, liverworts, mosses,
lycophytes, ferns,
gymnosperms and
angiosperms (flowering plants).
Embryophytes have...
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Selaginella apoda,
commonly known as
meadow spikemoss, is a
perennial lycophyte native to much of the
eastern United States and
parts of northeastern...
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ferns secrete a
chemical called antheridiogen.[citation needed]
Extant lycophytes produce two
different types of gametophytes. In the
homosporous families...
- distribution. They were
probably stem-group
lycophytes,
forming a
sister group to the
ancestors of the
living lycophytes. By the late
Silurian (late Ludlovian...
