Question
. Draw a clear and well-labelled diagram of a plant of Marsilea bearing sporopcarps
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Marsilea is a small aquatic or semi-aquatic pteridophyte belonging to the family Marsileaceae. It is commonly called “water clover” because its leaves resemble the four-leaf clover. Marsilea exhibits heterospory, producing two types of spores: microspores and megaspores, which develop within specialized structures called sporocarps. Sporocarps are drought-resistant, hard-shelled structures that protect the spores and enable survival under unfavorable conditions. Description of the Plant Bearing Sporocarps: Marsilea has a rhizomatous creeping stem that grows horizontally in mud or shallow water. The rhizome gives rise to leaves and sporocarps. Leaves are compound, with four leaflets (occasionally two or three) attached to a long petiole. Each leaflet is obovate or clover-shaped. The sporocarps are kidney-shaped or
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