Liverwort vs Hornwort - What's the difference?
liverwort | hornwort |
A type of bryophyte (includes mosses]], liverworts, and [[hornwort, hornworts) with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle.
* 1929 — Shiv Ram Kashyap, Liverworts of the Western Himalayas and the Panjab Plain , vol. I, p. 1.
* 1985 — W. B. Schofield, Introduction to Bryology , p. 135
* 2000 — Barbara Crandall-Stotler & Raymond E. Stotler, "Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta". pages 21-70 in'' A. Jonathan Shaw & Bernard Goffinet (Eds.), ''Bryophyte Biology , page 21.
A bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.
As nouns the difference between liverwort and hornwort
is that liverwort is a type of bryophyte (includes mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) with a leafy stem or leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage and a lack of stomata on the sporophyte stage of the life cycle while hornwort is a bryophyte with a leafless thallus characterized by a dominant gametophyte stage of the life cycle and a sporophyte stage shaped like a horn.liverwort
English
(wikipedia liverwort) (Marchantiophyta)Noun
(en noun)- The liverworts are either thallose, without any differentiation into stem and leaves, or leafy.
- Since the thallus of some liverworts' resembled a liver, such plants were considered useful in making a concoction that would aid in curing liver ailments. Hence the name "liver-plant," or '''liverwort'''. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that ' liverworts possess curative properties.
- Like other bryophytes, liverworts are small, herbaceous plants of terrestrial ecosystems.