Plant reproductive morphology be identical isospores or come in different sizes (microspores and megaspores), but strictly speaking, spores and sporophytes are neither male nor female because they do not produce gametes. The alternate generation, the gametophyte, produces gametes, eggs and/or sperm. A gametophyte can be monoicous (bisexual), producing both eggs and sperm or dioicous (unisexual), either female (producing eggs) or male (producing sperm). In the bryophytes (liverworts, mosses and hornworts), the sexual gametophyte is the dominant generation. In ferns and seed plants (including cycads, conifers, flowering plants, etc.) the sporophyte is the dominant generation. The obvious visible plant, whether a small herb or
Tasmanian ferns ferns most preferred substrates in on the trunks of Dicksonia Antarctica. The fern is not only found in Tasmania but also on the Australian mainland and New Zealand. Commonly known as Kangaroo fern, Microsorum pustulatum has smooth leathery bright green fronds. They spread via the fragmentation of their hairy rhizomes and can live as epiphytic plant growing on the trunks of plants such as Dicksonia Antarctica or as a lithophytic plant growing over rocks and logs. The plant is distributed over mainland Australia and Tasmania Commonly named Filmy Ferns, there are many species of Hypmenophyllum to be found in Tasmania’s