Question

What kind of plants do not have chlorophyl?

Answer 1

Saprophytic and some parasitic plants do not have chlorophyll.

Chlorophyll is the pigment that entraps solar energy for photosynthesis. Such plants have autotrophic mode of nutrition.

Plants lacking chlorophyll are either saprophytic or parasitic mode of nutrition.

Fungi is group of plants that lack chlorophyll. These are either saprophytes or parasites.

Saprophytes derive food from dead and decaying organic matter; whereas the parasites obtain their food from living host.

Most of the flowering plants are autotrophs. However, some of the angiosperms too are either paraites ( e.g.Cuscuttta) or saprophytes (e.g. Monotropa).. These plants lack chlorophyll