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    Anthocerotopsida

    Dr. Maya C Nair


    ANTHOCEROTAE
    (HORNWORTS)
    Anthocerotopsida

    • Commonly known as Hornworts

    • Plants thallose, dorsiventral lobed

    • No internal differentiation of tissues

    • Presence of oil bodies, smooth rhizoids

    • Sporogonium without seta with bulbous


    foot & intercalary meristem
    Anthocerotopsida
    Differ from other bryophytes in following characters :

    • Presence of large chloroplast & pyrenoid in each cell

    • Hypodermal origin of antheridia on dorsal side

    • Completely embedded gametophyte

    • Growth of sporophyte – intermediate

    • Presence of columella in sporogonium

    • Amphithecial origin of archesporium

    • Capsule wall with stomata & photosynthetic cells


    • Structure of elater differ from that of hepaticopsida - pseudoelaters

    • Chromosome no.5
    Other features of special interest

    • Gametophyte – thallose, slightly lobbed/ radially dissected, sometime


    show dichotomous branching

    • Dorsi-ventrally differentiated

    • Smooth walled rhizoids present

    • No scales & tuberculate rhizoids

    • Lateral margin –more than one cell in thickness except in Dendroceros

    • No internal differentiation of tissues


    Anthoceros
    A hornwort with sporangia
    ANTHOCEROTOPSIDA AS A SYNTHETIC GROUP

    • This group combining the characters of diverse group of plants


    • Have primitive type of gametophyte & advanced type of sporophyte

    Features common with chlorophyta

    • Presence of single large chloroplast & pyrenoid

    • Simple , flat ,thallus like undifferentiated gametophyte

    • Similar kind of branching in gametophyte

    • Biflagellated antherozoids
    FEATURES COMMON WITH PTERIDOPHYTA

    • Plant body resembles with prothalli of some


    pteridophytes like equisetum
    • Embedded archegonia in the gametophyte
    • Complex & highly developed sporogonia
    • Presence of stomata & cutinized epidermis in sporophyte
    • Continued growth of sporophyte due to presence of
    meristem
    • Presence of central columella resembling conducting
    tissues of certain primitive pteridophytes
    • Sporogonium resembles rootless, leafless,dichotomously
    branched sporophyte of Horneophyton
    FEATURES COMMON WITH HEPATICOPSIDA

    • Thallus like gametophyte

    • Smooth walled rhizoids present as in Jungermanniales

    • Apical growth of thallus

    • Similarity in archesporium
    sporophytes
    •Foot
    •Sporogonium
    •No seta
    •Pseudo-elater
    Anthoceros sp. - Anthocerotaceae
    Foliocerose sp. - Anthocerotaceae
    Thank you…

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