Image: Wikimedia Commons

bryophyte

Terrestrial plants that lack vascular tissue

Species / taxontaxon gradeQ29993

Also known as bryophytes · Bryophyta sensu lato

Scientific name: Bryophytes
Rank: superphylum
Parent taxon: Embryophyta
1
Sources
1.Stated in The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants
View statement on Wikidata ↗
, plant

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · Read full article · Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Bryophytes are a group of land plants (embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic division referred to as Bryophyta sensu lato, that contains three groups of non-vascular land plants: the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. In the strict sense, the division Bryophyta consists of the mosses only. Bryophytes are characteristically limited in size and prefer moist habitats although some species can survive in drier environments. The bryophytes consist of about 20,000 plant species. Bryophytes produce enclosed reproductive structures, but they do not produce flowers or seeds. They reproduce sexually by spores and asexually by fragmentation or the production of gemmae.

Overview

All data

55 statements · 18% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Different from: moss
Studied by: bryology
Said to be the same as: Bryobiotina

On other databases

45 identifiers linking bryophyte across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

18%

externally sourced

Source last edited September 19, 2026. AIDB refreshes this page daily.

Suggest a fact or correction

Links

Use this data

curl https://aidb.si/api/v1/entities/Q29993

API docs, limits & keys

Cite this page

AIDB. (2026). bryophyte (Q29993). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/bryophyte-Q29993