Friday, January 27, 2012

What are some adaptations of the fern plant?

You mean adaptations?

1. The pinnately compound leaves.

2. Producing enormous quantity of spores.

3. Presence of underground creeping rhizome.

4. Ability to undergo both sexual and asexual reproduction.

What are some adaptations of the fern plant?
Ferns typically have a horizontal (often underground) stem or rhizome, swollen with food reserves, from which the leaves and roots arise. The leaves are typically compound and bear sporangia in clusters termed sori (sing. sorus).





come in all shapes, sizes and locations. They may appear as dots, dashes or lines on the leaf blade. They may occur tucked under the leaf edge as in the maidenhair ferns or in particular arrays on the leaf surface.


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