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What are the characteristics of pteridophytes?

Answer 1

Characteristics of pteridophytes (ferns) are :

1. These are non-flowering plants that do not produce seeds.
2. These plants grow in damp and shady areas.
3. The leaves are feather-like and called fronds. (Pteron means feather and phyton means plants). They are divided into leaflets.
4. They reproduce through spores box on the lower side of fronds in small rounded brown structures called sori.
5.  The plants either have underground stems called rhizome or stem above the ground.