Bryophyta 

General features of the land plants

Common name

Mosses

Synonyms

Muscophyta

Growth habit

Multicellular: stems and leaves

Undulipodia (“flagella”)

Two whiplash

Conductive cells

Leptoids (food) and hydroids (water)

Clonal reproduction

Gemmae (multicellular propagules)

Sexual reproduction

Homosporous

Representative genera

Mnium, Polytrichum

Recognized by

Sporophytes with long setae and peristomes, leafy gametophytes

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