What is the venation of the moss plant (bryophytes)?

Brayophytes : Plant body is thalloid i.e., not differentiated in to root stem,leaves etc. So called leaf is a group of cells ,lacks vascular tissues (xylem and phloem) and there are no veins-conducting lines - , thus venation is not present . read more

If there is no nerve, the bryophyte in question can be a moss or a liverwort and you then need to look for other features to determine which bryophyte you have. The rest of this page is devoted to some diagrams illustrating some of these leaf features. The moss leaves will be illustrated in black-and-white, the illustrations taken from Analytical Drawings of Australian Mosses, edited by Ferdinand von Mueller and published in Melbourne in 1864. read more

Species of Bryophytes contained within The Plant List belong to 165 plant families and 1,473 plant genera. The Plant List includes 71,614 scientific plant names of species rank for the Bryophytes. Of these 15,344 are accepted species names. The Plant List includes a further 13,194 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the Bryophytes. read more

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