Re: Wacky VFT

From: Miguel de Salas (mm_de@postoffice.utas.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 18:43:11 PDT


Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:43:11 +1000
From: Miguel de Salas <mm_de@postoffice.utas.edu.au>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2178$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Wacky VFT


>the entire leaf surface. Watch out if it has little cup like
>structures on the leaf, these are the flowers and later seed
>"capsules" - the seeds are distributed by water splashing into the
>"cup" as a distribution mechanism it is amazingly effective.

These small cups on the leaf surface are not flowers. They are known as
'gemmae cups' they are vegetative reproductive structures, much like the
gemmae in pygmy Drosera.

Liverworts, as mosses and ferns, are not flowering plants.

Miguel de Salas
mailto:mm_de@postoffice.utas.edu.au

 School of Plant Science,
 University of Tasmania,
 GPO Box 252-55, Hobart,
 Tasmania, Australia, 7001.



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