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The Marchantiophyta (/ m ɑːr ˌ k æ n t i ˈ ɒ f ə t ə,-oʊ ˈ f aɪ t ə / ⓘ) are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts.Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information.
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]
They are 2 to 5 millimetres (0.079 to 0.197 in) in length, and feed on moss and liverworts. [1] They have wings in some species which are reduced in others but all species are flightless and live in damp moss habitats and are associated with the distribution of Nothofagus trees in Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and South America, which ...
The moss can be distinguished from similar mosses by its erect and cylindrical capsule and its "hair-pointed" leaves. Neighboring Barbula species are distinguished primarily by its lack of hair-pointed leaves and Grimmia species, which possess the hair-apices, have short and ovoid capsules.
Many club-moss gametophytes are mycoheterotrophic and long-lived, residing underground for several years before emerging from the ground and progressing to the sporophyte stage. [4] Lycopodiaceae and spikemosses (Selaginella) are the only vascular plants with biflagellate sperm, an ancestral trait in land plants otherwise only seen in bryophytes.
The liverwort is particularly associated with certain myxomycete species like Barbeyella minutissima, a rare slime mould that occurs primarily in montane spruce-fir forests. N. curvifolia often forms nearly pure mats on decorticated logs and shows a pH preference between 4.6 and 5.2, frequently occurring as a pioneer species on decorticated ...
Lobaria pulmonaria is a large epiphytic lichen consisting of an ascomycete fungus and a green algal partner living together in a symbiotic relationship with a cyanobacterium—a symbiosis involving members of three kingdoms of organisms.
A lichen that grows on a moss or liverwort – i.e. on a bryophyte. [73] A hepaticolous lichen is found only on liverworts, while a muscicolous lichen is found only on mosses. [74] [75] bullate Having blister-like or bubble-like swellings on a surface. [76] byssoid Having the texture of cotton; made of loosely intertwined hyphae. [77]