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Paraphyses are erect sterile filament-like support structures occurring among the reproductive apparatuses of fungi, ferns, bryophytes and some thallophytes. The singular form of the word is paraphysis.
The term "Bryophyta" was first suggested by Braun in 1864. [18] As early as 1879, the term Bryophyta was used by German bryologist Wilhelm Schimper to describe a group containing all three bryophyte clades (though at the time, hornworts were considered part of the liverworts). [19] [8] G.M. Smith placed this group between Algae and Pteridophyta ...
B. argenteum growing in the cracks of a car window. The species is silvery-green or whitish-green colored when dry. This is because the broadly ovate shaped single leaflets in the tip do not form chlorophyll.
Bryum is a genus of mosses in the family Bryaceae.It was considered the largest genus of mosses, in terms of the number of species (over 1000), until it was split into three separate genera in a 2005 publication. [1]
Bryophyta: Class: Bryopsida: Subclass: Dicranidae: Order: Ditrichales: Family: Ditrichaceae Limpr. Genera See text Ditrichaceae is a family of haplolepideous mosses ...
Ptychostomum pseudotriquetrum, commonly known as marsh bryum, [2] [3] is a species of moss belonging to the family Bryaceae. [4] It is distinguished by its strongly decurrent leaves that extend down the stem, central leaf stalks which may extend slightly beyond the tip of the leaf, dioicy, and long stems densely matted with rhizoids.
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Buxbaumia (bug moss, bug-on-a-stick, humpbacked elves, or elf-cap moss) [2] is a genus of twelve species of moss (Bryophyta). It was first named in 1742 by Albrecht von Haller and later brought into modern botanical nomenclature in 1801 by Johann Hedwig [3] to commemorate Johann Christian Buxbaum, a German physician and botanist who discovered the moss in 1712 at the mouth of the Volga River. [2]