Moss, Liverwort or Hornwort species

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Overview

Bryophyte is the collective name for the mosses, liverworts and hornworts. Bryophytes are spore-producing, rather than seed-producing, plants and they are all without flowers.

While there are marked differences between mosses, liverworts and hornworts, they are related closely enough to warrant a single term that includes all three. Bryophytes vary in size from plants only slightly over a millimetre tall to trailing species which grow to strands well over a metre long. Although they are often found in rainforests they can be found in a variety of habitats including arid and alpine areas. They occur most abundantly in relatively unpolluted areas. They can also be found growing on a variety of surfaces (or substrates) ranging from soil, rock, tree trunks, leaves, rotting wood, bones, to old discarded shoes or gloves. Bryophytes don’t have true roots. They have root-like anchoring structures called rhizoids but these do not actively extract minerals and water from the substrate.

You can read more about Bryophytes here: https://www.cpbr.gov.au/bryophyte/

166 species

Achrophyllum dentatum (Toothed Mitre-moss)

Achrophyllum dentatum
Achrophyllum dentatum
Achrophyllum dentatum

Acromastigum colensoanum (A liverwort)

Asterella drummondii (A thallose liverwort)

Asterella drummondii
Asterella drummondii
Asterella drummondii

Balantiopsis diplophylla (A liverwort)

Bazzania adnexa (A liverwort)

Bazzania fasciculata (A liverwort)

Breutelia pendula (Mountain Breutelia)

Breutelia pendula
Breutelia pendula
Breutelia pendula

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