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Bryonia

Bryonia (bryony) is a genus of ten climbing Cucurbitaceae herbs native from Macaronesia and Europe to Central Asia, sister to Ecballium, with dioecious and monoecious species and a two-millennium medicinal history.

Bryony Corrigan

Bryony Corrigan (born 1992) is an English actress and founding member of Mischief Comedy, known for Vanessa in The Goes Wrong Show, Broadway's The Play That Goes Wrong, and West End Goes Wrong shows.

Bryony Page

Bryony Page, British trampoline gymnast born 1990 in Crewe, won Olympic silver (Rio 2016), bronze (Tokyo 2020), and gold (Paris 2024), plus world titles in 2021 and 2023.

Bryophyte

Bryophytes: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, the non-vascular, spore-producing land plants with dominant gametophytes; monophyletic sister to vascular plants, poikilohydric, used in moss biomonitoring.

Bryophyte biogeography

Bryophyte biogeography is the study of where mosses, liverworts, and hornworts occur worldwide and why, covering spore dispersal, disjunct southern-hemisphere ranges, and their low island endemism compared with flowering plants.

Bryophyte flora of Asia

The bryophyte flora of Asia is the continent's moss, liverwort, and hornwort vegetation; China alone holds over 3,000 species, covering 70% of the world's bryophyte families.

Bryophyte flora of Australia

The bryophyte flora of Australia comprises the country's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, holding about 12% of global hornwort and liverwort diversity, richest along the wetter east and south-east.

Bryophyte flora of Canada

The bryophyte flora of Canada is the documented mosses, liverworts, and hornworts growing naturally in Canada, about 1,006 moss species, with British Columbia the richest province at 760.

Bryophyte flora of Central America

The bryophyte flora of Central America spans Guatemala to Panama and Cocos Island, with 968 moss species, 846 liverworts, and 19 hornworts in an area three-fourths the size of Texas.

Bryophyte flora of continental Europe

The bryophyte flora of continental Europe is the set of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts native to Europe, numbering about 1,892 species, of which 22.5% are threatened.

Bryophyte flora of Macaronesia

The bryophyte flora of Macaronesia is the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts native to the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde, with 729 recorded species.

Bryophyte flora of Mexico

The Bryophyte flora of Mexico is the documented assemblage of mosses, liverwort, and hornwort species. It totals about 1,600 species, with Veracruz being the richest state.

Bryophyte flora of New Zealand

The bryophyte flora of New Zealand is the country's moss, liverwort, and hornwort flora, totaling 1,235 wild taxa in 2025, of which 417 are endemic.

Bryophyte flora of North Africa and the Middle East

The bryophyte flora of North Africa and the Middle East is the combined mosses, liverworts, and hornworts documented from Morocco and the Sahara to Iran and Turkey.

Bryophyte flora of South America

The bryophyte flora of South America comprises the continent's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. The tropical Andes support about 2,500 species, roughly 16% of the world's mosses, and Brazil holds 1,524.

Bryophyte flora of Sub-Saharan Africa

The bryophyte flora of Sub-Saharan Africa is the documented assemblage of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts south of the Sahara, with 2,746 moss taxa and 1,118 liverwort and hornwort taxa recorded.

Bryophyte flora of the Caribbean

The bryophyte flora of the Caribbean consists of the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts of the West Indian islands, from 30 species on tiny Mona Island to 413 on Martinique.

Bryophyte flora of the Mediterranean region

The bryophyte flora of the Mediterranean region is the community of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts around the Mediterranean basin, where wet winters and summer droughts favor drought-tolerant, short-lived species.

Bryophyte flora of the United States

The bryophyte flora of the United States comprises the country's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, with centers of endemism in the southern Appalachians and along the Pacific coast.

Bryophyte flora of Western Australia

Bryophyte flora of Western Australia: the state's mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. First collected in the Swan River Colony by Drummond and Preiss; only 147 south-west moss species, 29 in the Kimberley, Polytrichopsida absent.

Bryophyte floras of Pacific and Indian Ocean islands

The bryophyte floras of Pacific and Indian Ocean islands are documented moss, liverwort, and hornwort inventories of Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and islands such as Réunion and the Seychelles.

Bryophyte sporophyte

The bryophyte sporophyte is the spore-producing generation of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, an unbranched structure attached to the gametophyte, typically built of a foot, a seta, and a spore capsule.

Bryophyte translocation and habitat restoration

Bryophyte translocation and habitat restoration covers practical conservation measures for mosses and liverworts: site management, translocation and reintroduction, ex-situ conservation, and habitat restoration, including peatland techniques.

Bryophyte-rich bog, moor and heath communities

Bryophyte-rich bog, moor and heath communities are plant communities in which mosses like Sphagnum dominate acidic, nutrient-poor peats, defined in Britain's National Vegetation Classification by species composition.

Bryophytes in ecosystem function and soil

Bryophytes in ecosystem function and soil: mosses, liverworts, and hornworts as the second-largest photoautotroph group, driving carbon sequestration, nitrogen cycling, water retention, biocrust soil carbon, and erosion control.

Bryophytes in human culture and use

Bryophytes in human culture and use covers the material, ceremonial, horticultural, and symbolic roles of mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, including Sphagnum wound dressings used in World War I.

Bryophytes of the Kerguelen Islands

Bryophytes of the Kerguelen Islands (Îles Kerguelen): mosses and liverworts of a subantarctic archipelago, about 125 moss and 28 liverwort species, first collected by Hooker in 1840, with roughly 20 endemic moss taxa in the Kerguelen Biogeographical Province.

Bryozoa

Bryozoa (ectoprocts, moss animals): colonial aquatic filter-feeding lophophorates built of zooids with a lophophore; 6,549 extant species, Ordovician fossil record, disputed Cambrian Protomelission origin, three major radiations.

Brysen Wright

Brysen Wright is a five-star wide receiver, class of 2028, from Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, Florida; ESPN's No. 1 national recruit, uncommitted, with Miami leading his recruitment at 89.4 percent.

Bryshere Y. Gray

Bryshere Y. Gray (Yazz the Greatest), born 1993 in Philadelphia, is an American actor and rapper who played Hakeem Lyon on Fox's Empire (2015–2020) and Michael Bivins in The New Edition Story.