YACHAY TECH UNIVERSITY

“Characteristics of bryophytes”
Homework#1
Name: Wendy Garcia Course: Botany Date: 24/03/2000

Sporophyte Structure
Taxon Number of Gametophyte Asexual Reproduction Stomata
species Foot Seta Capsule Mechanism
Clade
Phylum Thalloid Fragmentation or by
Marchantiophyta Liverwort Bisexual (Riccia gemmae
5.200 carpus) Yes Yes Yes No (Only
Clade Unisexual pores)
Leafy (Riccia) Fragmentation
Liverwort

Class 400 No
Plylum Bryophyta Sphagnidae
Fragmentation
Yes, in
Class 100 Unisexual Yes No Yes sporophyte
Andreaidae

Class 10.000 Yes Fragmentation and

Bryidae gemmae

Fragmentation, by Yes, but

Phylum Anthocerotophyta 300 Unisexual Yes No Yes tubers, and by gemmae pores in
gametophyte
 Taxon Rhizoids Dispersion of Protonema Free living Conducting Presence of
spores generation Tissues chloroplast
Clade
Thalloid
Phylum Liverwort
Marchantiophyta Unicellular By elaters Rare Yes Internal tissues Yes, a single large
Clade (Elaters absent differentiation in gametophyte
Leafy in Riccia)
Liverwort

Class By peristome Yes (One row

Sphagnidae teeth, also they of cells)
Phylum Bryophyta have an
explosive
Class Multicellular operculum Yes (Two row Yes Leptoids and Yes
Andreaidae mechanism. of cells) Hydroids

Class Yes (Single

Bryidae row of cells)

Phylum By
Anthocerotophyta Unicellular Pseudoelaters No Yes None Yes, single per cell
 Taxon Habitat Symbiosis Presence of Matrotrophy Branched
Chlorophyll
Clade
Thalloid
Phylum Liverwort Mostly moist
Marchantiophyta temperate and Fungi No Yes No
Clade tropical; a few
Leafy aquatic; often as
Liverwort epiphytes

*Fungi:
Class Peat bogs Glomeromycetes, ascomycetes,
Sphagnidae and Agaricomycotina.
*Cyanobacteria
*Fungi:
Phylum Class Mountainous or Glomeromycetes, ascomycetes,
Bryophyta Andreaidae Artic Regions and Agaricomycotina. Yes Yes No
(often on granite *Cyanobacteria
(Inside the hyaline cells)
*Fungi:
Class Rain Forest/ Glomeromycetes, ascomycetes,
Bryidae Tropical cloud and Agaricomycotina.
Forest *Cyanobacteria
Phylum Moist temperate Filamentous Cyanobaterium
Anthocerotophyta and tropical Nostoc Yes Yes No
 Alternation of Generations
Taxon
Type A Type B

Clade
Thalloid
Phylum Liverwort Bisexual zygote, sporophyte and *Bisexual zygote and sporophyte
Marchantiophyta gametophyte *Unisexual gametophyte
Clade (60%) (40%)
Leafy
Liverwort

Class
Sphagnidae

Bisexual zygote, sporophyte and *Bisexual zygote and sporophyte

Phylum Class gametophyte *Unisexual gametophyte
Bryophyta Andreaidae (50%) (50%)

Class
Bryidae

Bisexual zygote, sporophyte and *Bisexual zygote and sporophyte

Phylum gametophyte *Unisexual gametophyte
Anthocerotophyta (20%) (80%)