Classification of Plants — BIOLOGY STD 6 — Question

Characteristics of pteridophytes (ferns) are:
(a) These are non-flowering plants which do not produce seeds.
(b) These plants grow in damp and shady areas.
(c) The leaves are feather like and called fronds. (Pteron means feather and phyton means plants). They are divided into leaflets.
(d) They reproduce through spores bom on the lower side of fronds in small rounded brown structures called sori.
(e) The plants either have underground stems called rhizome or stems above the ground.