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cryptogam
A general name for a group of lower plants and plant-like organisms that lack flowers and reproduce by spores (crypto-gam means "hidden marriage"). The group includes cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes and ferns.
 

 

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29 August 2011
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