font settings

Font Size: Large | Normal | Small
Font Face: Verdana | Geneva | Georgia

Bryophyta

(Phylum)

Overview

[ Back to top ]

Bryophyta may refer to:

Photos

[ Back to top ]

Taxonomy

[ Back to top ]

The Phylum Bryophyta is further organized into finer groupings including:

Classes

[ Back to top ]

Andreaeopsida

Andreaeaceae is a family of which includes two genera, Andreaea, containing about 100 species, and the genus Acroschisma. The Andreaeaceae prefer rocky habitats ranging from tropical to arctic climates, on which they form tufted colonies, typically with reddish to blackish shoots. The capsules lack the peristome mechanism and dehisce longitudinally to release the spores, resulting in a paper-lantern appearance. [more]

Anthocerotopsida

Hornworts are a group of , or non-vascular plants, comprising the division Anthocerotophyta. The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte. The flattened, green plant body of a hornwort is the gametophyte plant. [more]

Bryopsida

The Bryopsida constitute the largest of mosses, containing 95% of all moss species. It consists of approximately 9,500 species, common throughout the whole world. [more]

Hepaticopsida

[more]

Marchantiopsida

The Marchantiophyta  (ˇinfo) are a division of bryophyte plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like other bryophytes, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information. [more]

Sphagnopsida

The Sphagnopsida includes a single subclass Sphagnidae, with three orders. The order contains only the genus Sphagnum, with all but two of the species. The order Ambuchananiales contains a single living species, and Protosphagnales contains a single fossil species. [more]

At least 432 species and subspecies belong to the Class Sphagnopsida.

More info about the Class Sphagnopsida may be found here.

Sources

[ Back to top ]
Last Revised: November 18, 2008