HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -The female reproductive organs in ferns and mosses are known as archegonium. It is the gametophyte stage of these plants. The archegonium (plural archegonia) produces eggs for sexual reproduction. They are closed structures located on the thallus (vegetative tissue) of the plant.

Detailed explanation-2: -archegonium, the female reproductive organ in ferns and mosses. An archegonium also occurs in some gymnosperms, e.g., cycads and conifers. A flask-shaped structure, it consists of a neck, with one or more layers of cells, and a swollen base-the venter-which contains the egg.

Detailed explanation-3: -A female gametangium with a sterile cellular jacket is called an archegonium, although, like an oogonium, it produces eggs. In most of the plants dealt with in this article, the eggs are produced in archegonia and the sperms…