Lycophytes are a diverse group of seedless vascular plants that are not true ferns. Like ferns, a fern ally disperses by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
Ferns are a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular, i.e., having specialized tissues that conduct water and nutrients and in having life cycles in which the branched sporophyte is the dominant phase.
Specimen Data Packages
National Herbarium of Rwanda dataset (715 records)
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Herbarium dataset (334 records)
Other
Bryophytes and Lichens
Literature
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