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Page 1: Seed-bearing Plants. Land Plants fall into two major groups Non vascular Vascular

Seed-bearing Plants

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Land Plants fall into two major groups

• Non vascular • Vascular

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Vascular Plants

• Some are seedless

• Others produce seed

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Seed-bearing Vascular Plants fall into two major categories

Gymnosperms

Angiosperms

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Seed-bearing Vascular Plants fall into two major categories

• Gymnosperm – seeds naked on surface of sporophyll

• Angiosperm – seeds enclosed in a ripened ovary

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Seed-bearing plants also produce pollen

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Living Gymnosperms

Cycads

GnetophytesGinkgoes

Conifers

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Cycads Appeared on Earth 250 MYA

• Reached their greatest abundance and diversity during the Jurassic

• Declined sharply during the Cretaceous radiation of the angiosperms.

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Global Distribution of Cycads is Tropical

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Mexican Cycads

Dioon Ceratozamia

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Australian Cycads

Macrozamia Macrozamia

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African Cycads

Encephalartos Stangeria

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Only Cycad Native to the US

Zamia pumila

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Cycads – Vegetative Characteristics

Encephalartos in Africa

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Cycad Stems

• Columnar• Little branching• Not very woody

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Cycad Leaves

• Produced in crowns at tip of stem

• Pinnately compound

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Certain roots in Cycads grow toward the soil surface

Corraloid Roots

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A Closer Look at Coralloid Roots

• Grow upward near soil surface

• Branch to form masses

• Root cortex inhabited by Cyanobacteria (carry out nitrogen fixation)

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Cycads – Reproductive Structures

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Cycads produce pollen and seeds in cones

• Cones develop at apex of stem

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All Cycads are Dioecious

• Individual plants produce either pollen cones or seed cones

Cycas revoluta

Pollen Cone

Seed Cone

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Many Cycads are Pollinated by Insects

• Only a few cycad species studied • Weevils and oldest known bee genus (Trigona)• Usually pollinators mate and lay eggs within female cone• All cones except Stangeria produce heat. Thought to

volatilize pollinator attractants• Hence insect pollination may predate flowering plants

Trigona

weevils

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The Gnetophytes

Ephedra

Welwitschia

Gnetum

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Ephedra is a desert shrub

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50 species 39 species monotypic

Ephedra is distributed in arid regions of the world

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Ephedra contains Ephedrine

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Pseudoephedrine is a Synthetic Version of Ephedrine

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Gnetum is a tropical vine or

small tree

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50 species 39 species monotypic

Gnetum occurs in the tropics

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Welwitschia is a bizarre plant of an extremely arid environment

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50 species 39 species monotypic

Welwitschia occurs only in the Namib Desert in South-West Africa

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Welwitschia forms a

short stem and deep tap root

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Welwitschia produces only two

adult leaves

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Welwitschia leaves grow

from the base – leaves fray as they grow

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Ginkgo – The Maiden Hair Tree

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Ginkgo was a common forest tree in the geological past

• Today represented by a single species

• Once occurred in North American Forests

• Presently occurs naturally only in China

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Present Distribution of Ginkgo biloba

• “Natural” trees may actually be plants cultivated at ancient Monasteries

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Ginkgo is also widely cultivated

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Ginkgo – Vegetative Characteristics

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Ginkgo is Deciduous

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Ginkgo is Deciduous

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Ginkgo Stems

• Extensive branching• Very woody

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Ginkgo Stems

long shoot

spur shoot

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Ginkgo Stems

long shoot spur shoot

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Ginkgo Leaves

• Fan shaped • Dichotomous

branching veins

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Leaf shape ranges from entire to bilobed

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All Ginkgo trees are Dioecious

• Individual plants produce either pollen “cones” or seed “cones”

• Produced on spur shoots

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Pollen “Cone” Seed “Cone”

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Ginkgo produces a seed with a fleshy seed coat

• Seed Coat contains Butyric Acid

• Seed Coat is not edible

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Ginkgo seeds are edible when fleshy seed coat is removed

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Taro with Ginkgo Seed

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Ginkgo biloba leaves are a popular herbal remedy

• Slow the progression of Alzheimer's symptoms

• Relieve depression, anxiety, headaches, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), and dizziness

• Reduce macular degeneration and control cataracts

• Optimize brain power

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Conifers – the most conspicuous gymnosperms

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Conifers

• Like the Cycads and Ginkgos, Conifers are well represented in the fossil record

Sequoia affinis

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Conifers are of great ecological importance

• Conifers are the dominant members of the vast Boreal forests (Taiga)

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Conifers are of great ecological importance

• Conifers are important members of other ecosystems

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Conifers are of great economic importance

• Edible Seeds• Crates, Boxes,

Matchsticks, Furniture

• Telephone Poles

• Turpentine and Rosin (Resin)

• Fuel (Pitch)• Pulpwood• Ornamentals• Pharmaceutica

ls (Taxol)

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There are seven living families of Conifers

Norfolk Island Pines

Junipers and CedarsYew

Sequoias and Redwoods

Pines, Fir Spruce

Five of the most familiar

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The Largest and the Oldest Plants are

both Conifers

• Bristlecone pines of the California White Mountains are the oldest

Giant Sequoias of the California Sierras are the largest

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"The Largest Living Thing on Earth"

- General Sherman -

Sequoia National Forest, CA 2200 years old , 275 feet tall ,

30 feet in diameter at the base. 119.3 miles of 1X12 planks

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Vegetative Characters of Pine

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Pine Stems

• Extensive branching• Christmas tree shape• Very woody

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Pine Stems

• Wood consist of tracheids only

• No fibers or vessels• Wood is “soft”

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Pine Leaves

• Needles produced in clusters (fascicles) of 1 to 5

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Leaf shape in transverse section

depends on number of leaves in the

fascicle

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Ginkgo Stems

long shoot spur shoot

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Pine Leaves

• Each fascicle is an entire spur shoot

long shoot

spur shoot

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Pine – Reproductive structures

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Pines produce pollen and seeds in cones

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Pines are MoneciousIndividual plants produce both pollen cones and seed cones

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Seed Cone

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Pines are MoneciousIndividual plants produce both pollen cones and seed cones

C

Pollen Cone

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Pollen cones produce pollen

C

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Seed cones produce seed

C

Young seed cone

Mature seed cone