Australian National Botanic Gardens

Cryptogams

Lichens, liverworts, mosses and hornworts are all members of a group of organisms called cryptogams. Cryptogams vary greatly in structure but one feature common to all of them is that they do not produce flowers or seeds.

The Plant Underworld - there's more to life than flowers

A display prepared for the Visitors Centre at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2002. The web pages reproduce the panels in the display in numbered sequence.