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THE PLANT KINGDOM
Phylum Bryophyta
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Bryophya is a group of land plants (embryophytes), which is a taxonomic division (Phylum Brophyta), that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. Known as bryophytes, the organisms within this taxonomic division are characteristically limited in size and prefer moist habitats although some species can survive in drier environments.
This phylum Bryophyta consists of about 24,000 seperate species and are considered an important foundation plant for the forest ecosystem by covering the forest floor and prevent erosion.

Bryophyta Characteristics
1. Non-Vascular: organisms do not have channels carrying fluids.
2. Spore Producing: organisms which are spore producing.
3. Non-flowering: organisms that do not produce flowers.

Bryophyta Information:
The Bryophyta phylum consist of non-vascular land plants which means that they do not have conducting tissues. These plants are small, close to the ground, non flowering, reproduce by spores, and grow in the dirt or on other plants.
Bryophytes produce enclosed reproductive structures (gametangia and sporangia), but they do not produce flowers or seeds. They reproduce sexually by spores and asexually by fragmentation or the production of gemmae.
Bryophyta Phulum is divided into three classes.
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Taxonomy:
Kingdom: Plantea
Phylum: Bryophyta

Class: Antheroceropsida (hornworts)
200 species
Order: Anthrocerotales
Family: Anthocerotaceae
Genus: Anthoceros
66 species
Genus: Folioceros
20 species
Genus: Sphaerosporoceros
2 species
Order: Dendrocerotales
Family: Dendrocerotaceae
Genus: Dendroceros
43 species
Genus: Megaceros
8 species
Genus: Nothoceros
7 species
Genus: Phaeomegaceros
7 species
Order: Notothyladales
Family: Notothyladaceae
Genus: Hattorioceros
1 species
Genus: Mesoceros
2 species
Genus: Notothylas
21 species
Genus: Phaeoceros
41 species
Genus: Paraphymatoceros
1 or 2 species
Order: Phymatocerotales
Family: Phymatocerotaceae
Genus: Phymatoceros
2 species

Class: Bryopsida (mosses)
7 sub-class, 37 orders,
a large number of families, 11,500 species

Class: Hepaticophyta (liverworts)
4 orders, many families, numerous genera, and over 9,000 species
Order: Marchantiales
Order: Sphaerocarpales
Order: Calobryales
Order: Jungermanniales

Class: Leiosporocerotopsida (hornwort)
monotypic species
Order: Leiosporocerotales
Family: Leiosporocerotaceae
Genus: Leiosporoceros
Species: L.dussil
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