The ground tissue of a leaf, sandwiched between the upper and lower epidermis and specialized for photosynthesis. Referring to a plant species that has both staminate and carpellate flowers on the same individual. The sexual organs are borne on a gametophyte generation, and the antheridia and archegonia are on separate leaf rosettes. The first root of the plant. It develops in continuation from the root tip.
Rhizoids are important in penetrating a substance, giving anchorage and absorbing nutrients.
A horizontal underground stem, with leaves and buds, that serves as a storage organ and a means of vegetative propagation. The part of a plant that usually grows below ground. The root provides anchorage for aerial parts, absorbs water and mineral salts from the soil, conducts water and nutrients to other parts of the plant, and often stores food materials over winter. A capsule in fungi and plants in which meiosis occurs and haploid spores develop. The multicellular diploid form in organisms undergoing alternation of generations that results from a union of gametes and that meiotically produces haploid spores that grow into the gametophyte generation.