Read the following characters and identify the plant to which they are referring to:
(a) They usually occur in damp, humid and shaded localities.
(b) First embryophytes
(c) First archegoniate
(d) The sporophyte is not free-living but attached to the photosynthetic gametophyte

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Ectocarpus

Sphagnum

Cedrus

Selaginella

answer is D.

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Bryophytes usually occur in damp, humid and shaded localities. They are the first embryophytes and archegoniate. The sporophyte is not free-living but attached to the photosynthetic gametophyte and derives nourishment from it. Sphagnum is an example of bryophytes.

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