Dark green Marchantia gametophytes (sexual plants) are branched and ribbonlike, about 1.3 cm (0.5 inch) wide and 5 to 13 cm long. The diamond-shaped markings on their upper surfaces, signs of interior air chambers, have a central pore through which air diffuses.
Explanation:
he diploid zygotes develop into sporogonium or sporophyte. The sporophyte is differentiated into the foot, seta, and capsule containing numerous sporogenous cells, which by meiosis cell divisions forms the tetrad of haploid spores that represent the first gametophytic stage.
