NEETBotanyPlant Kingdom
What is the method of asexual reproduction in liverworts?
Options
- AFormation of spores
- BFragmentation of thalli
- CFormation of gemmae
- DBoth B and C
Correct answer
D. Both B and C
Step-by-step solution
The liverworts grow usually in moist, shady habitats such as banks of streams, marshy ground, damp soil, bark of trees and deep in the woods. The plant body of a liverwort is thalloid, e.g., Marchantia. The thallus is dorsiventral and closely appressed to the substrate. The leafy members have tiny leaf-like appendages in two rows on the stem-like structures . Asexual reproduction in liverworts takes place by fragmentation of thalli, or by the formation of specialized structures called gemmae (sing. gemma). Gemmae a