Thallophyte vs Thalloid - What's the difference?
thallophyte | thalloid |
(botany) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.
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* 1999 , R. G. Hermann, The Chloroplast: Part of the Integrated Genetic System of the Plant Cell'', Joan H. Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou, Horst Senger (editors), ''The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology ,
Of or pertaining to a thallus.
(botany) Of a plant, alga, or fungus lacking complex organization, especially lacking distinct stems, roots, or leaves.
In botany|lang=en terms the difference between thallophyte and thalloid
is that thallophyte is (botany) any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group thallophyta while thalloid is (botany) of a plant, alga, or fungus lacking complex organization, especially lacking distinct stems, roots, or leaves.As a noun thallophyte
is (botany) any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group thallophyta.As an adjective thalloid is
of or pertaining to a thallus.thallophyte
English
(wikipedia thallophyte)Noun
(en noun)page 347,
- They[algae, fungi and mosses] lack the vascular tissues; thus, they are called thallophytes'. Algae are '''thallophytes''' with chlorophyll.Fungi are ' thallophytes without chlorophyll.
page 422,
- In general, the usefulness of the thallophytes' as Hg bioindicators was limited by their sporadic occurrence in the forest environment. Because of the importance of the ' thallophytes as components of the food chain, however, several samples from different groups (summarized in Table 2) were collected for comparison with values reported in the literature.
page 66,
- Fossile(sic) records along with molecular, cytological and morphological phylogenetic work favour a single origin of land plants from charophycean thallophytes , and indicate that several major lineages of vascular plants had evolved more than 400 million years ago.