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Its aim was to provide communication between those interested in bryophytes so they could build up collections of correctly identified specimens. The Club produced printed reports and compiled records of bryophyte distributions by vice-county, and members exchanged information by letter, but the Club did not hold meetings. Over the years ...
An example of moss (Bryophyta) on the forest floor in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. Bryophytes (/ ˈ b r aɪ. ə ˌ f aɪ t s /) [2] are a group of land plants (embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic division, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses (Bryophyta sensu lato). [3]
Hill, Mark O. and Bryan Edwards (2003) The Mosses and Liverworts of DorsetISBN 0-9511394-2-8 Perry, Irene G. (2001) Bryophyte Atlas of Exmoor National Park Wales
Bryology (from Greek bryon, a moss, a liverwort) is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying or researching bryophytes. [1]
Archegoniatae was a higher taxonomic term that indicated those embryophytes having a female sexual organ in the form of an archegonium.The term was first introduced by the Russian botanist Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin (1848–1904) in 1876 to indicate a division including bryophytes, pteridophytes and gymnosperms in contrast to the Gynoeciatae (Angiosperms) with a more complex female organ.
Further observations on the bryophyte flora of the Isle of May: ii. Rate of succession in selected communities involving bryophytes. Watson, Eric Vernon. (1960). Trans. Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, 39:85–106. A Quantitative Study of the Bryophytes of Chalk Grassland. E. V. Watson (1960). Journal of Ecology, 48(2):397–414; British Mosses and ...
The American Bryological and Lichenological Society is an organization devoted to the scientific study of all aspects of the biology of bryophytes and lichen-forming fungi and is one of the nation's oldest botanical organizations.
Bryophytes — non-vascular plants, that include mosses, hornworts, and liverworts. They are cryptogams ( spore -plants). The study of Bryophytes is named bryology .