Order Psilotales (Noun)
Meaning
Lower vascular plants having dichotomously branched sporophyte divided into aerial shoot and rhizome and lacking true roots.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Psilotales are often referred to as whisk ferns, and they represent one of the most ancient lineages of vascular plants still in existence.
- Order Psilotales, commonly known as whisk ferns, consists of two genera: Psilotum and Tmesipteris.
- Psilotales lack true roots and have dichotomously branched sporophytes, making them unique among vascular plants.
- Order Psilotales are lower vascular plants characterized by the absence of true roots and the presence of branching rhizomes.
- Whisk ferns, belonging to the order Psilotales, are small vascular plants without leaves or true roots, mostly confined to temperate and tropical regions.