nonvascular plants Plants lacking lignified vascular tissue (xylem), vascularized leaves, and having a free-living, photosynthetic gametophyte stage that dominates the life cycle. Common examples are the mosses and liverworts.
nonvascular plants, gametophyte dominanted life cycle
mosses, liverworts, hornworts
Psilophyta ...
Cryptogams: nonvascular plants such as lichens and mosses that make up the ground or surface layer of vegetation.
Vascular plants are considered to be more advanced than nonvascular plants because they have evolved specialized tissues, namely xylem, which is involved in structural support and water conduction, and phloem, ...
bryophytes A group of nonvascular plants consisting of the hornworts, liverworts,
bryozoans Colonial invertebrates in which the anus is located outside the edge of a lophophore.
bubo Swollen lymph node.
(bry-oh-fites)
The mosses, liverworts, and hornworts; a group of nonvascular plants that inhabit the land but lack many of the terrestrial adaptations of vascular plants.
bronchus pl. bronchi ...
 See also: Vascular plants, Life, Species, Animal, Cells
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