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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.
Bryum
Bryum Hedw. (1801), type B. argenteum, is a large, polyphyletic moss genus in Bryaceae with rhombic-hexagonal leaf cells and perfect double peristomes; species have been split into Ptychostomum, Gemmabryum, Rosulabryum, and Imbribryum.
Buxbaumia
Buxbaumia (buxbaumia moss, shield-moss) is a genus of about 12 protonema-dominant mosses in Buxbaumiaceae, recognized by large oblique capsules; B. viridis is Habitats Directive Annex II listed.
Buxbaumia viridis
Buxbaumia viridis, green shield-moss (Moug. ex DC.) Brid., an Annex II EU Habitats Directive moss of decaying deadwood, with 4–6 million spores per capsule, short-lived green spores, and Least Concern European but nationally threatened status.
Casterlorum
Casterlorum, type species Casterlorum crispum, a form genus of Ordovician fossil land plants from Douglas Dam, Tennessee, interpreted as the geologically oldest known hornwort, about 460 Ma.
Charles Walker Cathcart
Charles Walker Cathcart (1853–1932) was a Scottish surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and a rugby union forward who won three Scotland caps between 1872 and 1876.
County and regional bryophyte floras of the British Isles
County and regional bryophyte floras of the British Isles: published accounts of mosses, liverworts and hornworts by Watsonian vice-county, from 19th-century single-author floras to modern tetrad atlases under the British Bryological Society's Census Catalogue system.
Dawsonia (plant)
Dawsonia (巨髮苔屬), genus of giant mosses in Polytrichaceae named for Dawson Turner; contains Dawsonia superba, the world's tallest moss at up to 65 cm, native to Australasia and Melanesia.
Dawsonia superba
Dawsonia superba (Dawson's giant moss), family Polytrichaceae, is the world's tallest moss, up to 60 cm, native to New Zealand, Australia, and Malesia, with hydroid water conduction and a splash-cup peristome.
Dendroceros
Dendroceros, a pantropical hornwort genus in Dendrocerotaceae with about 30–41 species, is the only epiphytic hornwort, with midrib-and-perforated-wing thalli, one star-shaped chloroplast per cell, modified pyrenoid, and multicellular spores.
Dicranales
Dicranales, an order of true mosses in subclass Dicranidae, historically included many families now shown polyphyletic; recent phylogenomics restricts it to Dicranaceae, Calymperaceae, Fissidentaceae, and Octoblepharaceae.
Dicranella
Dicranella (forklet-mosses) is a moss genus in Dicranellaceae, type species D. heteromalla; molecular phylogenetics showed it polyphyletic, prompting a narrowed circumscription and new families and genera.
Dicranum
Dicranum (broom or fork mosses) is a genus of about 90-98 acrocarpous mosses in Dicranaceae, with narrow lanceolate leaves, a single costa, and alar cells; 29 species in Europe, some endangered epiphytes.
Ecology and reproduction of haircap mosses
Haircap mosses (family Polytrichaceae) are erect, tuft-forming mosses with internal conducting strands that grow taller than most mosses, on soil in forests, mires, and disturbed ground worldwide.
Fissidens
Fissidens, sole genus of the moss family Fissidentaceae (Dicranales), about 440 species; unique four-lamina leaves with sheathing vaginant laminae, 16-toothed split peristome, tropical distribution, three subgenera from the 2018 molecular phylogeny.
Fissidens adianthoides
Fissidens adianthoides (maidenhair pocketmoss), Fissidentaceae, is a robust bipolar wet-habitat moss with unistratose laminae and a pale marginal band, confused with F. dubius, genome sequenced 2025.
Fissidentaceae
Fissidentaceae, also called pocket moss family, is a moss family with the single genus Fissidens (450–500 species), defined by distichous leaves with pocket-like vaginant laminae; tropical diversity, Dicranales, three molecular subgenera since 2018.
Flora of Ireland
Flora of Ireland: the island's native and naturalized plants. Notable for 797 bryophyte species in a cool moist climate, a vascular flora poorer than Britain's (74 British natives absent), Red List No. 14 (2025), and Flora (Protection) Order 2022.
Folioceros
Folioceros, also written Folioceros D.C.Bharadwaj, is a genus of hornworts in Anthocerotaceae established in 1971, with about 17 Asian tropical species, pinnate thalli, dark elongated pseudoelaters, and a clade shared with Anthoceros.
Frullania
Frullania Raddi, 1818: sole genus of Frullaniaceae, largest genus of liverwort order Porellales, 300-375+ species worldwide except Antarctica; epiphytic, reddish, water-sac lobules, eleven subgenera.
Funaria
Funaria is a genus of annual Funariaceae mosses (type species F. hygrometrica, bonfire moss), defined by a compound annulus, hygroscopic twisted seta, and double peristome; monophyletic sister to the Entosthodon-Physcomitrium complex.
Funariales
Funariales, an order of mosses (Bryopsida, Funariidae) with families Disceliaceae and Funariaceae; includes Funaria hygrometrica and Physcomitrella patens; marked by rapid radiation and sporophyte homoplasy.
Gametophyte body plans in bryophytes
In bryophytes the photosynthetic gametophyte is the dominant plant, taking one of two body plans: a flattened thallus or a cylindrical leafy shoot, as in mosses.
Ghillie Dhu
Ghillie Dhu (Gille Dubh), Scottish folklore's solitary forest fairy of Gairloch, a dark-haired guardian in moss and leaves who guides lost children home and gave the ghillie suit its name.
Grimmiales
Grimmiales is an order of acrocarpous mosses within the Dicranidae, named for the genus Grimmia, including grimmias, bent-mosses, pincushions, and rock-bristles defined by a single-rank peristome of 16 teeth.