In this article we will discuss about the structure of Riccia with the help of diagrams. External Structures of Riccia: The gametophytic plant body of Riccia is a dichotomously branched dorsiventral prostrate thallus. In terrestrial habits, the plants usually occur in a rosette form due to the presence of a number of dichotomies that grow together from one place (Fig. [...]
Here is a list of twenty Bryophytes:- 1. Riccia 2. Marchantia 3. Conocephalum 4. Lunularia 5. Dumortiera 6. Targionia 7. Fimbriaria 8. Reboulia 9. Plagiochasma 10. Pellia 11. Porella 12. Metzgeria 13. Anthoceros 14. Notothylas 15. Sphagnum 16. Pogonatum 17. Taxithelium 18. Funaria 19. Bryum 20. Fissidens. 1. Riccia: Vegetative Structure: Plant body is thallose, dorsiventrally differentiated, prostate with dichotomous [...]
Classification of Bryophytes! The term Bryophyta was first introduced by Braun (1864), however, he included algae, fungi, lichens and mosses in this group. Later, algae, fungi and lichens were placed in a separate division Thallophyta and liverworts, mosses in division Bryophyta. The rank of division Bryophyta to this well-defined group of plants was first given by Schimper (1879). Eichler (1883) [...]