Liverworts

Liverworts have a thin, leathery body that grows flat on moist soil or, in some cases, the surface of still water.
Mosses have an erect shoot bearing tiny leaflike structures arranged in spirals.
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liverworts
Belong to the class Bryophyta and are found in damp and wet conditions.
lobule
One of several lobes or divisions of the liver.
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In the liverworts, elaters are cells that develop in the sporophyte alongside the spores. They are complete cells, usually with helical thickenings at maturity that respond to moisture content.
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The mosses, liverworts, and hornworts; a group of nonvascular plants that inhabit the land but lack many of the terrestrial adaptations of vascular plants.
bronchus pl. bronchi
(bronk-us, bronk- eye) [Gk. bronchos, windpipe] ...
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Hepatophyta - liverworts
Anthocerophyta - hornworts
Bryophyta - mosses
vascular plants (tracheophytes)
seedless vascular plants ...
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antheridiophore in some liverworts, a stalk that bears antheridia embedded on an elevated and expanded tip.
antheridium The multicellular male sex structure of plants other than seed plants.
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low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, and grasses
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crustose and foliose lichen ...
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Plant that lacks vessels, including the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
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Angiosperms (oaks, tulips, cacti),gymnosperms (pines, spuce, fir), mosses, ferns,liverworts, horsetails (Equisetum, the scouring rush)
Animalia
All heterotrophic.
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