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MOSSES
Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta sensu latu, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Mosses typically form dense green clumps or mats, often in damp or shady locations.
The individual plants are usually composed of simple leaves that are generally only one cell thick, attached to a stem that may be branched or unbranched and has only a limited role in conducting water and nutrients.
Although some species have conducting tissues, these are generally poorly developed and structurally different from similar tissue found in vascular plants. Mosses do not have seeds and after fertilisation develop sporophytes with unbranched stalks topped with single capsules containingspores. They are typically 0.2–10 cm (0.1–3.9 in) tall, though some species are much larger. There are approximately 12,000 species.
Mosses are plants with a very simple structure.
This means that unlike other plants, they do not have a circulatory system to transport water and nutrients,
nor do they have deep roots or woody tissues like wood. Therefore, they are technically classified as non-vascular plants .
Mosses are the plants that most closely resemble the first to colonize terrestrial environments . Despite having evolved like other plant species, they remain the closest to those that, about 500 million years ago, left the water to adapt to living on dry land. In fact, a study CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals) reveals that today’s mosses are like a true evolutionary relic: the bridge that connects planktonic algae with terrestrial plants. Check the article here
BRYOPHYTES
Bryophytes are a group of land plants (Embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic division referred to as Bryophyta sensu latu, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. In the strict sense, the division Bryophyta consists of the mosses only. Bryophytes are characteristically limited in size and prefer moist habitats although some species can survive in drier environments. The Bryophytes consist of about 20,000 plant species. Bryophytes produce enclosed reproductive structures (gaametangia and sporangia), but they do not produce flowers or seeds. They reproduce sexually by spores and asexually by fragmentation or the production of gemmae.
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