Definitions for "Bryophyta"
a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
The lineage of non-vascular land plants also known as mosses. "Bryophyte" is also a term sometimes used to refer collectively to the three lineages of non-vascular land plants, the liverworts, hornworts, and mosses. | Bryophyta section of Lab 10 | Moss life cycle - Lab 11| Cladogram
Keywords:  cryptogamia, see
See Cryptogamia.