Pteridophytes: Features, Economic Importance and Classification
Pteridophytes (Gr. pteron= feather, phyton = plant) constitute the most primitive seedless vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores. Hence, they are known as 'vascular cryptogams'. Haeckel (1866) called these groups of plants as "Pteridophytes" because of their pinnate or feather like fronds (leaves). Like reptiles (first true land animals that evolved after amphibian) they are considered as the [...]