Noun: 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)
- division Bryophyta
Type of: division
Part of: kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae
Encyclopedia: Bryophyta