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    A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant, in the broad sense of the word, or a plant-like organism that share similar characteristics, such...
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  • Cryptogam Ridge (60°43′S 45°40′W / 60.717°S 45.667°W / -60.717; -45.667) is an east–west ridge lying south of Cummings Cove in Signy Island, South...
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    Greek φανερός (phanerós), meaning "visible", in contrast to the term "cryptogam" or "cryptogamae" (from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós) 'hidden', and...
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    Fungus (category Cryptogams)
    A fungus (pl.: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as...
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    flowering plants. Antheridia are present in the gametophyte phase of cryptogams like bryophytes and ferns. Many algae and some fungi, for example, ascomycetes...
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    (Josef) Bernard Jack (1818-1901), who was a German apothecary and botanist (Cryptogam and Bryophytes). The genus was circumscribed by Viktor Felix Schiffner...
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  • A system of taxonomy of the cryptogams, the Smith system was published in: Smith, G.M. (1938). Cryptogamic Botany, vol. 1. Algae and fungi. McGraw-Hill...
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    while the Barwick Valley, one of the Dry Valleys, Mount Rittmann, and Cryptogam Ridge on Mount Melbourne are specially protected areas for their undisturbed...
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    Pteridophyte (category Cryptogams)
    produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. They are also the...
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    terranovensis from Cryptogam Ridge and also from Mount Rittmann volcano. Bacillus fumarioli from Cryptogam Ridge. Bacillus thermoantarcticus from Cryptogam Ridge,...
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    disposita. He discovered the spores of mushrooms, was a leading authority on cryptogams, and coined several important genera of microfungi including Aspergillus...
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  • strategy is not limited to the seed plants; some species of spore-bearing cryptogams—such as Selaginella—form tumbleweeds, and some fungi that resemble puffballs...
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    gonochoric in animals, as dioecious in seed plants and as dioicous in cryptogams.: 82  In some species, female and hermaphrodite individuals may coexist...
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    species more commonly known as weeds. There are an estimated 150,000 cryptogam species or nonvascular plants which include lichens, and fungi although...
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    (gymnosperms, including the pines, and flowering plants) and the free-sporing cryptogams including ferns, clubmosses, liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Embryophytes...
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    17, 1887) was an American planter and botanist. He studied fungi and cryptogams in South Carolina, discovering a large number of new species. The genus...
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    life-forms include prostrate shrubs; tussock-forming graminoids; and cryptogams, such as bryophytes and lichens.: 280  Plants have adapted to the harsh...
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    schoenleinii in Schönlein's honor. In 1842 he described a microscopic cryptogam (Trichophyton ectothrix) that is associated with a dermatological disease...
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    gonochoric in animals, as dioecious in seed plants and as dioicous in cryptogams.: 82  Males can coexist with hermaphrodites, a sexual system called androdioecy...
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  • produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, horsetails...
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    species of plants have been introduced. Owing to the moistness of the soil cryptogams are numerous, as are also most kinds of grasses. On most of the islands...
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    since both groups are polyphyletic and may be used to include vascular cryptogams, such as the ferns and fern allies that reproduce using spores. Non-vascular...
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    15 metres in height in what is variously described as a moss, soil or cryptogam layer. The ground itself is covered by a layer of dead plant and animal...
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    Kroner Lake (site K) is another known-age site being colonised by numerous cryptogam species, and with a unique algal community on the lake shore. South East...
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    Lichen (category Cryptogams)
    Common lichen growth forms A lichen (/ˈlaɪkən/ LIE-kən, UK also /ˈlɪtʃən/ LI-chən) is a hybrid colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among...
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    include prostrate shrubs; tussock-forming graminoids; cushion plants; and cryptogams, such as bryophytes and lichens. Relative to lower elevation areas in...
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    Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in cloning a mammoth. Rush/grass, forb, cryptogam tundra covers Maly Lyakhovsky Island. It is tundra consisting mostly of...
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    atheism, pride, and selfishness incarnated in primitive worlds as "fleshy cryptogams" (creeping animals resembling slugs), which represents the doctrine of...
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  • research in all areas of botany especially of Iberian and Macaronesian cryptogams. It is published by the Botanical Garden of the University of Lisbon and...
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    mixture of rush/grass, forb, cryptogam tundra, cryptogam herb barren, and sedge/grass,moss wetland. The rush/grass, forb, cryptogam tundra covers the bulk of...
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