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2 unusual facts about Bryophyta


Bryophyta

Bryophytes, a paraphyletic group of plants formerly regarded as a single division but now split into mosses (Bryophyta), hornworts (Anthocerotophyta), and liverworts (Marchantiophyta).

Mosses, a specific group of leafy bryophytes, now regarded as Division Bryophyta (sensu stricto).


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Muscinae

From the 19th century, the term "Muscinae" is also an obsolete scientific name for the mosses (modern Bryophyta), once used in the taxonomy of Ernst Haeckel (circa 1899).


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