Q. What are the major representatives of the pteridophytes? Is this plant group phanerogamic or cryptogamic?
The better known pteridophytes are the ferns and the maidenhairs, from the selaginellas, and the filicinae (filicopsida) group, mosslike plants from the lycopodineae group (lycopsida). Pteridophytes are cryptogamic plants that are they are seedless and flowerless.