Psilotum nudum
Species of fern in the family Psilotaceae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Psilotum nudum, the whisk fern,[2] is a fernlike plant. Like the other species in the order Psilotales, it lacks roots.[3]
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Psilotales |
Family: | Psilotaceae |
Genus: | Psilotum |
Species: | P. nudum |
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Its name, Psilotum nudum, means "bare naked" in Latin, because it lacks (or seems to lack) most of the organs of typical vascular plants, as a result of evolutionary reduction. (Note that leaves are not actually absent, but greatly reduced.)[3]