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3 unusual facts about bryophyte


Bryophyta

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

Ganllwyd

A large area of surrounding ancient oak woodland is a designated SSSI and has a particularly rich temperate maritime Bryophyte community.

Nathaniel Lord Britton

He married Elizabeth Gertrude Knight, a bryologist, on August 27, 1885.


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Ampicillin

Ampicillin, like other β-lactam antibiotics, not only blocks the division of bacteria, but also the division of chloroplasts of the glaucophytes (called cyanelles) and chloroplasts of the moss Physcomitrella patens, a bryophyte.

Flora Danica

The original plan was to cover all plants, including bryophytes, lichens and fungi native to crown lands of the Danish king, that is Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and Norway with its North Atlantic dependencies Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck

Heinrich Gustav Mühlenbeck, name also given as Henri Gustave Muehlenbeck (2 June 1798, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines – 21 November 1845, Mühlhausen) was an Alsatian physician and botanical collector known for his work with bryophytes.

New Guinea Highlands

The alpine habitat above 4,000 metres consists of compact rosette and cushion herbs, such as Ranunculus, Potentilla, Gentiana, and Epilobium, grasses (Poa and Deschampsia), bryophytes, and lichens.


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