Bryophyte vs Pteridophyt - What's the difference?
bryophyte | pteridophyt |
(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:
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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.