The pteridophyte, popularly known as 'quillwort' is
Selaginella
Lycopodium
Isoetes
Marselia
A
Lycopodium
B
Isoetes
C
Selaginella
D
Marselia
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Isoetes is a mat-forming quillwort, small, rooted aquatic emergent found in very shallow pools on granitic flat rock. Quillworts are mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic in clear ponds and slow-moving streams. Quillwort leaves are hollow and quill-like, arising from a central corm. They are heterosporous.
Thus, the correct answer is option C.
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