Cryptogamic Botany-II: Bryophyta and Pteridophyta

The topics like Bryophyta and Pteridophyta are written by the author with full details and skills so that the students of F. Y. B. Sc. Botany can understand very easily. This Book may also help to the students of other University and agriculture Science as it is the basis of cryptogamic plants.

I have kept in mind the level of the students entering the undergraduate as well as Post- Graduate and treated the syllabus all the topics in a language and style which will be well within their grasp.

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1. Bryophytes: 

1.1 General characters of bryophytes, classification as per G. M. Smith (02)

1.2 Systematic position, occurrence, thallus structure (external and internal), reproduction -vegetative, asexual, and sexual (excluding developmental stages), graphic life cycle and alternation of generations of the following types:

a)   Hepaticopsida – Marchantia                                             (07)

b)   Bryopsida – Funaria                                                       (06)

Unit-II

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2. Pteridophytes: 

2.2 General characters of Pteridophytes, classification as per G. M. Smith

(02)

Systematic position, occurrence, external and internal structure of sporophyte and gametophyte, reproduction (excluding developmental stages), graphic life cycle and alternation of generations of the following types:

a)   Psilopsida – Psilotum                                                     (03)

b)   Lycopsida – Lycopodium, Selaginella                               (12)

c)   Sphenopsida – Equisetum                                              (06)

d)   Pteropsida – Marsilea                                                     (07)