![]() Calyptra: haploid tissue forming a membranous hood over the capsule in a moss.
Capsule: a small glass or plastic container that has something ,such as a liquid, inside of it.
Seta or stalk: a part of a plant that supports another.
Leaf: one of the flat and typically green parts of a plant that grow from a stem or twig.
Rhizoid: a rootlike structure that helps get water.
Protonema: the primary usually filamentous thalloid stage of the gametophyte in mosses and in some liverworts comparable to the prothallus in ferns
What allows moss to live ob land?
Heres another website that has more mosses: http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/PDFiles/Bryo-poster%201.pdfHeres a game about moss: http://www.arcadecabin.com/play/moss.html |
By about 540 million years ago some early plants evolved from earlier alge that could live on land, outside of the water These plants were like modern moss. All of the animals were still living in the water, so on land there was only moss and mushrooms
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