Question

What is an example of homosporous?

Answer 1

Homosporous plants :

1. The plants produce only one kind of spores.
2. These spores on germination grow into male and female gametophytes.

Example of Homosporous plants :

1. Lycopodium club mosses

• The moss contains kidney-shaped sporangia containing only one kind of spore ( Homosporous ).
• The spores are borne on the upper leaf blade of leaves ( sporophylls).

2. Equisetum

• The only living pteridophyte of the Equisetaceae family.
• They also contain one kind of spore, formed on strobili or cones which project individually on the apex of fertile shoots.