Question: pteridophytes can be referred to as vascular cryptogams comment

title: Pteridophyte
text: A pteridophyte sensu lato is a vascular plant ( with xylem and phloem ) that reproduces via spores , and therefore was a member of the former and now invalid taxon Pteridophyta . The term is now used only informally to denominate a fern ( monilophyte ) or lycophyte . Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds , they are also referred to as `` cryptogams '' . The pteridophytes include the ferns , horsetails , and the lycophytes ( clubmosses , spikemosses , and quillworts ) . These are not a monophyletic group because ferns and horsetails are more closely related to seed plants than to the lycophytes . Therefore , `` Pteridophyta '' is now an invalid taxon , although the term pteridophyte remains in common parlance , as do pteridology and pteridologist as a science and its practitioner , to indicate lycophytes and ferns as an informal grouping , such as the International Association of Pteridologists and the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group . 

Answer: answer: Yes. A pteridophyte sensu lato is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that reproduces via spores and, therefore, was a member of the former and now invalid taxon Pteridophyta . Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are also referred to as ``cryptogams''.