Any of a range of primitive plants without vascular systems (i.e. they do not contain ducts for conveying sap). Such plants include the mosses and the...

Plant scientists recognize two kinds of land plants: bryophytes (nonvascular land plants) and tracheophytes (vascular land plants). Bryophytes are small, herbaceous plants that grow closely packed together in mats or cushions on rocks or soil or as...

The bryophytes are those embryophytes ('land plants') that are non-vascular: they have tissues and enclosed reproductive systems, but they lack vascular tissue that circulates liquids. They neither flower nor produce seeds, reproducing via...