Quillworts
Like Selaginella, quillworts are heterosporous which means that they
have two kinds of spore instead of just one. Having male and female spores
of different size is a feature of more highly evolved plants. This picture
shows a section through a microsporophyll of a quillwort. Microspores are
the tiny male spores.
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