Anatomy of Spore

Under high magnification, spores can be categorized as either monolete spores or trilete spores. In monolete spores, there is a single line on the spore indicating the axis on which the mother spore was split into four along a vertical axis. In trilete spores, all four spores share a common origin and are in contact with each other, so when they separate, each spore shows three lines radiating from a center pole.

Vascular plant spores are always haploid. Vascular plants are either homosporous (or isosporous) or heterosporous. Plants that are homosporous produce spores of the same size and type. Heterosporous plants, such as spikemosses, quillworts, and some aquatic ferns produce spores of two different sizes: the larger spore in effect functioning as a "female" spore and the smaller functioning as a "male".

Trilete spores

Trilete spores, formed by the dissociation of a spore tetrad, are taken as the earliest evidence of life on land, dating to the mid-Ordovician (early Llanvirn, ~470 million years ago).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore

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