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    Bryophytes are small non-vascular plants that include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. They typically grow in moist environments. The gametophyte generation is dominant in bryophytes, unlike vascular plants where the sporophyte dominates. Bryophytes lack xylem and phloem and have non-lignified cell walls. There are three main bryophyte phyla: Hepaticophyta (liverworts), Anthocerotophyta (hornworts), and Bryophyta (mosses). Liverworts can form large colonies and have distinct leaf structures. Hornworts have dorsiventral gametophytes and lobed thall

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    Bryophytes are small non-vascular plants that include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. They typically grow in moist environments. The gametophyte generation is dominant in bryophytes, unlike vascular plants where the sporophyte dominates. Bryophytes lack xylem and phloem and have non-lignified cell walls. There are three main bryophyte phyla: Hepaticophyta (liverworts), Anthocerotophyta (hornworts), and Bryophyta (mosses). Liverworts can form large colonies and have distinct leaf structures. Hornworts have dorsiventral gametophytes and lobed thall

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    Bryophytes are small non-vascular plants that include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. They typically grow in moist environments. The gametophyte generation is dominant in bryophytes, unlike vascular plants where the sporophyte dominates. Bryophytes lack xylem and phloem and have non-lignified cell walls. There are three main bryophyte phyla: Hepaticophyta (liverworts), Anthocerotophyta (hornworts), and Bryophyta (mosses). Liverworts can form large colonies and have distinct leaf structures. Hornworts have dorsiventral gametophytes and lobed thall

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    Bryophytes are small non-vascular plants that include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. They typically grow in moist environments. The gametophyte generation is dominant in bryophytes, unlike vascular plants where the sporophyte dominates. Bryophytes lack xylem and phloem and have non-lignified cell walls. There are three main bryophyte phyla: Hepaticophyta (liverworts), Anthocerotophyta (hornworts), and Bryophyta (mosses). Liverworts can form large colonies and have distinct leaf structures. Hornworts have dorsiventral gametophytes and lobed thall

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    Plants

    Bryophytes

    Introduction

    Introduction
    In bryophytes the gametophyte is
    dominant
    (vascular plants sporophyte is dominant)
    Include mosses, liverworts, and
    hornworts; small leafy plants that
    usually grow in moist locations and
    forests or on edges of rivers, some
    however have adapted to living in
    deserts on rock
    Bryophytes lack xylem and phloem
    that are present in vascular plants
    and cell walls are not lignified like in
    vascular plants

    Bryophytes importance

    Bryophytes Phyla
    1. Phylum Hepaticophyta (liverworts)
    2. Phylum Anthocerotophyta (hornworts)
    3. Phylum Bryphyta (mosses)

    Phylum Hepaticophyta (liverworts)


    Liverworts are generally small
    plants but can form large
    colonies in moist areas and
    have a distinct leaf structure
    Many liverwort gametophytes
    develop straight from the
    spores and many of the
    gametophyte have a liver
    shape
    Vegetative plant body of
    gametophyte (dorsiventral) is
    either thallus (thallose) or leafy
    axil (foliose)

    Liverworts: Phylum Hepatophyta


    Three types: thalloid, leafy, and
    simple thalloid
    Thalloid had internal tissue
    differentiation
    Leafy and simple thalloid have
    strands of undifferentiated
    tissues

    Liverworts: Phylum Hepatophyta Family


    Family Ricciaceae
    simplest; photosynthetic
    regions of thallus has got
    either air chambers or
    narrow air canals enclosed
    by filaments of
    chlorophyllous cells
    shown is the flat,
    protatrate, ribbon-like,
    dichotomous branching of
    thallus in rosette
    formation

    Liverworts: Phylum Hepatophyta Family


    Family Marchantia
    characterized by the
    presence of
    special stalked vertical
    branches (has archegonia)
    known as
    archegoniophores/
    carpocephala
    Typical sterile cells,
    elaters, inside the capsule
    Shown is Male Merchantia

    Hornworts: Phylum Anthocerophyta


    Hornworts are characterized by:
    1. Gametophyte is dorsiventral (of a
    leaf or other part of a plant having
    dissimilar dorsal and ventral
    surfaces)
    2. Lobed thallus without internal
    differentiation of tissues
    3. Each thallus has single(rarely 2 or
    more) laminate chloroplast with
    central pyrenoid
    Gametophytes are rosette-like and
    branching is not obvious
    Hornworts are inhabited by
    cyanobacteria that fix nitrogen for
    them
    The sporophyte is made of a foot
    and a long cylinder-like capsule and
    early in its development, a
    meristem forms between the foot
    and capsule
    Reproductive organs are
    embedded within dorsal surfaces

    Hornwort

    Mosses: Phylum Bryophyta


    Three classes: the peat mosses,
    the granite mosses, and the
    true mosses (Sphagnidae,
    Andreaeidae, Bryidae
    True mosses is largest and look
    like green algae except for the
    slanted cross walls
    Sporophytes of peat mosses are
    red to brown spherical capsules
    that are raised on the stalk and
    form large, densely packed
    clumps
    Mosses are small and dependent,
    nutritionally, on the gametophyte
    and they are unbranched

    Mosses: Phylum Bryophyta


    Characterized by having
    gametophyte differentiated into 2
    stages:
    Branched prostate, juvenile
    filamentous/thalloid stage
    (protonema) which is transitory
    Erect, radial leafy shoot
    (gametophore) is generally
    persistent

    Moss

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