thallus
Any plant body that is not divided into true leaves, stems, and roots. It is often thin and flattened, as in the body of a seaweed, lichen, or liverwort, and the gametophyte generation (prothallus) of a fern.
Some flowering plants (angiosperms) that are adapted to an aquatic way of life may have a very simple plant body which is described as a thallus (for example, duckweed Lemna).
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