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  2. Bryophyte - Wikipedia

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    Bryophytes are characteristically limited in size and prefer moist habitats although some species can survive in drier environments. [4] The bryophytes consist of about 20,000 plant species. [5] [6] Bryophytes produce enclosed reproductive structures (gametangia and sporangia), but they do not produce flowers or seeds.

  3. Non-vascular plant - Wikipedia

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    In all bryophytes, the primary plants are the haploid gametophytes, with the only diploid portion being the attached sporophyte, consisting of a stalk and sporangium. Because these plants lack lignified water-conducting tissues, they cannot become as tall as most vascular plants. Algae, especially green algae. The algae consist of several ...

  4. Vascular plant - Wikipedia

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    A proposed phylogeny of the vascular plants after Kenrick and Crane 1997 [15] is as follows, with modification to the gymnosperms from Christenhusz et al. (2011a), [16] Pteridophyta from Smith et al. [17] and lycophytes and ferns by Christenhusz et al. (2011b) [18] The cladogram distinguishes the rhyniophytes from the "true" tracheophytes, the ...

  5. Embryophyte - Wikipedia

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    Some extinct early plants appear to be between the grade of organization of bryophytes and that of true vascular plants (eutracheophytes). Genera such as Horneophyton have water-conducting tissue more like that of mosses, but a different life-cycle in which the sporophyte is branched and more developed than the gametophyte.

  6. Rhynia - Wikipedia

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    Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii was the sporophyte [2] generation of a vascular, axial, free-sporing diplohaplontic embryophytic land plant of the Early Devonian that had anatomical features more advanced than those of the bryophytes. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii was a member of a sister group to all other eutracheophytes, including modern vascular plants.

  7. Pteridophyte - Wikipedia

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    Just as with bryophytes and spermatophytes (seed plants), the life cycle of pteridophytes involves alternation of generations. This means that a diploid generation (the sporophyte, which produces spores) is followed by a haploid generation (the gametophyte or prothallus, which produces gametes). Pteridophytes differ from bryophytes in that the ...

  8. Euphyllophyte - Wikipedia

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    The division of the extant tracheophytes into three monophyletic lineages is supported in multiple molecular studies. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Other researchers argue that phylogenies based solely on molecular data without the inclusion of carefully evaluated fossil data based on whole plant reconstructions, do not necessarily completely and ...

  9. Moss - Wikipedia

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    Chloroplasts (green discs) and accumulated starch granules in cells of Bryum capillare. Botanically, mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta. They are usually small (a few centimeters tall) herbaceous (non-woody) plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food by photosynthesis.