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Angiosperms vs Bryophyte - What's the difference?

angiosperms | bryophyte |

As a proper noun angiosperms

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As a noun bryophyte is

(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.

angiosperms

Translingual

(a clade diagram)

Alternative forms

* Angiosperms

Proper noun

(taxoninfl)
  • Synonyms

    * (clade) Magnoliophyta, Angiospermae, flowering plants

    Hyponyms

    * (clade) eudicots, magnoliids, monocots - clades;  - unassigned genera

    bryophyte

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 , 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).
  • * 2002', William R. Buck, '''''Bryophytes'' , entry in Niles Eldredge (editor), ''Life on Earth , page 202,
  • Because of their small size and often delicate structure, bryophytes have a poor fossil record, dating back only about 290 million years.
  • * 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 312:
  • 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 * spermatophyte