Bryopsida

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Noun1.Bryopsida - true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders AndreaealesBryopsida - true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Bryophyta, division 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)
Andreaeales, order Andreaeales - comprises a single genus: Andreaea
Bryales, order Bryales - category used in some classification systems for mosses having the spore case separated from the capsule wall by a hollow intercellular space
Dicranales, order Dicranales - widely distributed order of mosses with erect gametophores and sporophytes at the tips of stems
Eubryales, order Eubryales - mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules
order Sphagnales, Sphagnales - coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass
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Tackling a long-standing problem: typification of Orthotrichum crispum, Ulota crispula and Ulota intermedia (Bryopsida, Orthotrichaceae).
Milne J (2001) Reproductive biology of three Australian species of Dicranoloma (Bryopsida, Dicranaceae): Sexual reproduction and phenology.
Peat cores were collected on June 2-3, 2009, from places of treeless low tussocks dominated by Eriophorum vaginatum and Bryopsida mosses.
The PCR-based approach was used as a comparative profiling tool to probe genomic DNA samples from species belonging to classes Bryopsida and Sphagnopsida, although it is only partly suitable for a comprehensive description of all TAS3 genes in a particular organism [24].
For example, Parihar (1965) employed the class names Hepaticopsida, Anthoceropsida, and Bryopsida, respectively.
Hamatocaulis y Scorpidium (Calliergonaceae, Bryopsida) in the Iberian Peninsula
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