The psilophytes are very similar in appearance to Cooksonia caledonica, which has provided the oldest macrofossil of a plant. What do these plants look like?
A) Prostrate creepers with proteoid roots, alternately branching microphylls and terminal heterosporous sporangia.
B) Small, erect plants with rhizoids, radially branching microphylls and axial homosporous sporangia.
C) Small, erect plants with coralloid roots, megaphylls, and axial heterosporous sporangia
D) Small, erect plants with rhizoids, megaphylls and homosporous sporangia.
E) Small, erect, dichotomously branched plants with photosynthetic stems, creeping rhizomatous bases and terminal, homosporous sporangia.
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