BRYOPHYTES

Question 1

What are bryophytes?

Answer 1

• Earliest members of
  land plants
• High humidity/access
  to water important
• Mosses common in
  forests, edge of fields

Question 2

What does a sporophyte do?

Answer 2

• Bryophyte sporophyte
  stage grows from the
  gametophyte
• Sporophytes receive
  water and nutrients from
  the gametophyte
• Sporangium is the organ
  producing meiospores
  for wind dispersal

Question 3

What are the three types of bryophytes?

Answer 3

-Liverworts
-Hornwort
-Mosses

Question 4

Characteristics of liverworts

Answer 4

Phylum Hepatophyta, include the
most primitive plants and range from forms
with dichotomously branching thalli (ca 1000
spp) to leafy moss-like forms (ca 8000 spp

Question 5

Characteristics of hornwort

Answer 5

Phylum Anthoceratophyta, are a
small group ( ca 500 spp) with multilobed
flattened thalli and elongated narrow sporangia
(shaped like horns of some antelope

Question 6

Characteristics of mosses

Answer 6

Phylum Bryophyta in the narrow
sense, include a large number of small leafy
plants (ca 14,500 spp) producing sporangia with
a central sterile column. Mosses differ greatly in
colour, stem and leaf traits, habit orientation and
habitat preferences