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Lab 12: Bryophytes : Mosses and Liverworts (and hornworts)

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Acrocarpous vs. pleurocarpous mosses<br />

Acrocarpus:<br />

• erect growth form<br />

• non branching<br />

• terminal archegonia <strong>and</strong><br />

fruiting bodies<br />

Pleurocarpus:<br />

• branched morphology<br />

• fruiting bodies in axils of<br />

lateral branches<br />

Polytrichum commune<br />

Hyocomium armoricum

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