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GNETOPHYTA - ✔✔• Three genera - Ephedra, Gnetum and Welwitschia
• Gymnosperm
• Has vessels
• Has am archegonia cavity but not an archegonium per se; egg is in the archegonal
cavity
• Has one venter cell
• Double fertilization
• One sperm unites with egg → 2n zygote → embryo
• One sperm unites with the venter canal cell → 2n cell → mitosis many times → 2n
tissue that supples food to developing embryo (similar to endosperm)
Ephedra - ✔✔• 40 species
• shrubs
• present since Permian
• found in dry areas in Old and New World
• Colorado, Utah, New Mexico
• alkaloids - ephedrine (made tea)
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, • green, photosynthetic stems
• most species are dioecious (a few species are monoecious)
• Male: microsporangia & microsporophyll (Cone)
• Female: Ovule (red bract & scale)
Gnetum - ✔✔• 30 species
• lianas (vines), some shrubs, a few trees
• Gnetum gnemon - Tree, Java, food, rope
• Present since Permian
• Male: microsporangia in whorls
• Female: ovules on stems (mature red seeds)
Welwitshchia - ✔✔• 1 species (mirabilis)
• Southwest coast of Africa (Namibia)
• desert, 5 cm of rain per year
• two leaves
• Live upto a 1000 years
• dioecious
Bennettitales - ✔✔• Gymnosperms
• late Carboniferous or Permian, peaked in Jurassic, extinct in late Creaceous
• 2 Familes: Cycadeoidaceae & Williamsoniaceae
• Ovules clustered inside bracts
• Did not have ovaries; did not have flowers
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