Cryptogams vs Phanerogam - What's the difference?
cryptogams | phanerogam |
(botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
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As nouns the difference between cryptogams and phanerogam
is that cryptogams is while phanerogam is (botany) any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).phanerogam
English
(Spermatophyte)Noun
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- Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.
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- The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams', 20 cryptogams. Among the ' phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.
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- Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams , and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.