Bryophyte vs Angiosperm - What's the difference?
bryophyte | angiosperm |
(botany) Any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants.
* 1993 , Wilson Nichols Stewart, Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants ,
* 2002', William R. Buck, '''''Bryophytes'' , entry in Niles Eldredge (editor), ''Life on Earth ,
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 312:
(botany) Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
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* 1997 , Valentin A. Krassilov, Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects ,
* 2009 , Xin Wang, 3: New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms'', Pierre Pontarotti, ''Evolutionary Biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application ,
(botany) pertaining to the angiosperms.
In botany terms the difference between bryophyte and angiosperm
is that bryophyte is any plant of the division Bryophyta, defined sensu lato to comprise the mosses, liverworts and hornworts and corresponding to all embryophytes that are not vascular plants while angiosperm is pertaining to the angiosperms.As an adjective angiosperm is
pertaining to the angiosperms.bryophyte
English
(wikipedia bryophyte)Noun
(en noun)page 77,
- Without going into their reasons, Bold, Alexopoulos, & DelBevoryas (1980) and Crandall-Stotler (1980) believe that there are at least three independent lines of bryophytes and that this is best reflected by establishing three divisions - the Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), and Anthocerotophyta (hornworts).
page 202,
- Because of their small size and often delicate structure, bryophytes have a poor fossil record, dating back only about 290 million years.
- And so it was that I was introduced to Len Ellis and the quiet world of bryophytes – mosses to the rest of us.
See also
* Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts) * cryptogam * embryophyte * Marchantiophyta (the liverworts) * pteridophyte * spermatophyteangiosperm
English
(wikipedia angiosperm)Noun
(en noun)- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
page 134,
- The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms , justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.
page 55,
- With all these features, it is pretty easy for one to identify an angiosperm'. This is a very normal and common practice for neobotanists. However, the situation becomes complicated when you go back to the early history of ' angiosperms .
