Question

Sketch and label the diagram of the Funaria plant?

Answer 1

Funaria:

1. The moss Funaria is often monoecious and has male and female reproductive organs on the apex of two distinct shoots from the same plant.
2. Approximately 117 global species make up the genus Funaria.
3. The main plant body is the gametophyte in Funaria.
4. The gametophytic plant body has two developmental stages: juvenile and adult.
5. The protonema stage, which arises straight from a spore, is the first stage.
6. It is a creeping, branching, usually filamentous stage that is green.
7. The second stage, known as the leafy stage, arises as a lateral bud from the secondary protonema.
8. They are made up of straight, thin axes with leaves arranged in spirals.
9. Through branched, multicellular rhizoids, they are joined to the soil.
10. This stage bears the sex organs.