bryophyta

1. A division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms;
   Comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida) (synset 111557229)
   is a type of: division - (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
   member holonym:

   • bryophyte, nonvascular plant - any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta
   • moss family - a family of mosses
   • moss genus - a genus of mosses
   • anthoceropsida, class anthoceropsida - hornworts: in some classification systems included in the class Hepaticopsida
   • bryopsida, class bryopsida, class musci, musci - true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
   • class hepaticae, class hepaticopsida, hepaticae, hepaticopsida - liverworts: comprises orders Anthocerotales; Jungermanniales; Marchantiales; Sphaerocarpales
   belongs to: kingdom plantae, plant kingdom, plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants
   same as: division bryophyta

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